Dee Dee Myers Quotes
Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
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When Barack Obama was elected, it immediately brought out all the differences in society.
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.
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Ability is a poor man's wealth.
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People don't lack resources, they just lack control over their resources.
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In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
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I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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There's something about [pain] that excites me. If I'm feeling really awful about something, it's because I haven't experienced it before. There's something I need to learn from it.
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Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
