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As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men at least three times a day, on principle.
Julie Burchill
Day
Woman
Men
Three
Duty
Every
Once
Worthy
Troublemaker
Wrote
Principle
Least
Times
Upset
Militant
Description
It is one planet and we all have a duty to protect it. We have to work together. We have to use our power to work together and make decisions and changes that are needed to preserve our world.
Julie Payette
Work
Together
World
Power
Duty
Changes
Our
Our World
Protect
Make
Decisions
Work Together
Planet
Use
Needed
Preserve
My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
Kajol
Work
Time
Duty
Films
Birth
Kind
Give
Given
Only
My Time
Attention
Am
Doing
Go
Off
Dump
Person
Just
Children
Them
Reason
Why
Need
I've entered politics the moment I marked my finger with the electoral voting mark. So I've entered politics, but I am not a politician. I am doing my duty as a citizen of India.
Kamal Haasan
Politics
Voting
Citizen
Duty
Politician
Mark
Marked
Entered
India
Finger
Am
Doing
Electoral
Moment
At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were overwhelmed by the number of prospective suitors. Thousands of men flocked to the Confederate capital of Richmond, prepared to work in one of the government departments or to train for duty in the Army.
Karen Abbott
Work
Government
Army
Women
Men
Confederate
Young
Duty
Cities
Thousands
Prospective
Operations
Least
Were
Train
Overwhelmed
Departments
Established
Where
Young Women
Capital
Richmond
Prepared
Base
Number
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
Kate DiCamillo
Gift
Reading
Duty
Offered
Children
Should
Chore
Presented
It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
Kate Middleton
Future
Strength
Strong
Space
Parents
Build
Duty
Our
Give
Emotional
Provide
Children
Teachers
Foundation
Our duty as journalists is to use our clarity - and our imagination - to build hope in the societies in which we work. Our duty is to keep holding power to account, and to fight for press freedom around the world.
Katharine Viner
Work
Hope
Freedom
Fight
World
Power
Build
Duty
Holding
Imagination
Our
Press
Clarity
Journalists
Around
Account
Which
Use
Keep
Societies
It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.
Kathe Kollwitz
Suffering
Men
Duty
Voice
Never-Ending
Sufferings
People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?
Kathleen Parker
People
Power
Duty
Positions
Higher
Higher Level
Perform
Privilege
Them
Then
Who
Level
Someone had to lend me a hand or two to pull me forward. I feel it's my duty to make sure I do the same.
Katrina Adams
Me
Duty
Someone
Had
Feel
Make
Sure
Hand
Same
Lend
Forward
Two
Pull
Brexit is so important, it would have been neglect of duty to simply sit it out.
Keir Starmer
Important
Sit
Duty
Neglect
Out
Would
Simply
Been
Brexit
I would reject wholeheartedly any notion of a Labour Party that is not committed to returning to power at the first opportunity. Of course that needs to be principled power. But standing on the sidelines looking for the purest ideology is a dereliction of the duty for any Labour member.
Keir Starmer
Needs
Opportunity
Power
First
Looking
Ideology
Party
Duty
Sidelines
Member
Would
Purest
Principled
Returning
Course
Labour
Labour Party
Committed
Any
Notion
Standing
Wholeheartedly
Reject
In the absence of honesty from the Conservative party leadership, it is Labour's duty to spell out the very real consequences of a no-deal Brexit. It is also our duty to take whatever steps are necessary to prevent it.
Keir Starmer
Leadership
Honesty
Conservative
Party
Whatever
Duty
Consequences
Conservative Party
Spell
Our
Out
Prevent
Absence
Take
Steps
Also
Real
Very
Labour
Brexit
Necessary
If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.
Kelly Ayotte
Duty
General
Laws
Pick
Pick And Choose
Attorney
Attorney General
Am
Doing
Going
Choose
Defend
Those who have enjoyed the benefits of our system more than ever now owe a duty to protect the system that has created the greatest nation on this planet.
Kenneth C. Griffin
Benefits
Nation
Duty
Our
Those
System
More
Protect
Greatest
Than
Owe
Planet
Created
Who
Now
Ever
Enjoyed
I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.
Kerry Greenwood
Life
Eyes
Problem
Duty
Solicitor
Someone
Got
Fix
Front
To me, families are puzzles that take a lifetime to work out - or not, as often is the case - and I like to explore how people within them try to connect, be it through love, duty, or circumstance.
Khaled Hosseini
Work
Love
Me
People
Try
Duty
Circumstance
Out
Case
Through
Take
Lifetime
Puzzles
Like
Within
How
Families
Often
Them
Work Out
Explore
Connect
The day after we had pitched a game, it was our duty to stand at the gate, and afterwards to count the tickets. I remember counting 30,000 tickets one day at the Polo Grounds in New York.
Kid Nichols
Day
Game
Remember
Duty
Our
One Day
Count
Had
Counting
New
Tickets
York
New York
After
Polo
Afterwards
Stand
Grounds
Gate
National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.
Kim Jong Il
People
National
Young
Duty
Defense
Other
Sacred
Sacred Duty
National Defense
I always felt that it was never the duty of a person to really stand up for their gender or their race or anything like that - I always felt that was a personal choice. But I do feel now that maybe my opinion is evolving or changing a little bit.
Kumail Nanjiani
Gender
Duty
Changing
Bit
Evolving
Never
Feel
Like
Felt
Opinion
Always
Up
Person
Personal
Personal Choice
Maybe
Anything
Little
Race
Little Bit
Really
Choice
Stand
Stand Up
Now
As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.
Kurt Huber
Political
Citizen
Oppose
Duty
Our
Destiny
Moral
Moral Duty
Only
Take
Shaping
Part
Wrongs
Also
Obvious
German
Person
Hold
Expose
Professor
Right
There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.
Lafcadio Hearn
Man
Fear
Men
Cowardly
Duty
Every
Suicide
Others
Considered
Would
Seemed
Implying
Himself
Because
His
Very
North
Get
Being
Little
Among
Every Man
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Lao Tzu
Nature
Better
Own
Duty
Follow
Never
He
Perform
Well
Another
Does
Reveals
However
His
Sins
Than
May
Who
Defective
My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.
Lata Mangeshkar
Death
Father
Responsibility
Duty
Months
Run
Had
House
Household
Passed
His
Child
After
Eldest
Working
Shoulders
Away
Start
I buy all my perfumes duty free - I think people are fools not to.
Leandra Medine
Buy
People
Free
Fools
Duty
Think
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