Emily Carr Quotes
The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.
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Isolationism is over.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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My brother Steve, who was a few years older than me, had 'Bad' on tape, and I remember listening to 'Smooth Criminal' and just thinking it was the coolest thing ever. I must have been five or six at the time, and I remember walking around school by myself thinking I was Michael Jackson. I wasn't dancing, exactly - more like walking musically.
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Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.
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The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.
