Darlene Cates Quotes
...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.
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This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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In 2011, General Alston, four-star commander in Iraq, recommended to the President, a force level of over 20,000. The President rejected it and pulled out all the forces with what is now known as a disastrous consequence in Syria.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
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Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished.
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The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.
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I often ask people what I did wrong in the last meeting, because then others feel they have permission to own their mistakes, too.
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If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.
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...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.
