O. T. Fagbenle Quotes
When representation of the LBGT community was much more scarce in the media, I think there was some kind of pressure to encapsulate an entire community in a single character - this can often be a fast track to generalization and stereotypes.
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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
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I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.
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I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.
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How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.
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We are very committed to highlighting women succeeding in entrepreneurship or technology.
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I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.
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About the drug-testing policy.
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When representation of the LBGT community was much more scarce in the media, I think there was some kind of pressure to encapsulate an entire community in a single character - this can often be a fast track to generalization and stereotypes.
