Kavita Ramdas Quotes
Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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We know the fans love us to death, and the people that hear out music love our music.
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Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless, the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is 'poisoning our children' by polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe.
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There are no shortcuts in evolution.
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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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I created DonorsChoose by putting pencil to paper - literally - and sketching out each screen of the web site and how it would work. Then I paid a programmer from Poland $1,500 to turn my sketches and common-sense rules into a functioning website.
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Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.
