Bev Perdue Quotes
Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
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If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted.
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People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up.
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Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.
