Dee Rees Quotes
When I first started going out to lesbian clubs, I felt a very binary recreation of hetero culture. There are butches and femmes, and I felt like I was neither of those things. I'm in a turtleneck and jeans and just learning to be comfortable in that space. I realized I don't have to be a certain way.
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I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
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I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
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I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about their space.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.
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Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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Los Angeles County is one of the most park-poor urban areas in the nation, and the San Gabriel Valley - stretching from Pasadena to Pomona - is especially starved for open space.
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Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.
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All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.
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New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
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I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
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St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.
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There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.
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People are always invading your personal space on set, especially on 'The Walking Dead.'
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We continue to not only operate the International Space Station but to increase its capabilities as well as commercial contributions.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.
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When I first started going out to lesbian clubs, I felt a very binary recreation of hetero culture. There are butches and femmes, and I felt like I was neither of those things. I'm in a turtleneck and jeans and just learning to be comfortable in that space. I realized I don't have to be a certain way.
