Emma Bonino Quotes
I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.
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In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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Being a mom has changed me forever.
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I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.
