Ellen Gallagher Quotes
I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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Papa died when he was 77.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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No one person is an island.
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I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
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I do not shrink from uttering my firm conviction that it would be a gain to the country were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, more gloomy, more fierce in its religion than at present it shows itself to be.
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The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.
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I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled.
