Dolores Huerta Quotes
We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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I think celebrities suck.
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I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
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We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.
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Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better.
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Acting-wise, I think I did well in 'Kinatay.' It wasn't talkie, and the acting was intense.
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You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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There is a lot of talk in conservative circles about judicial modesty and deferring to the political branches. That view of judging often overlooks the important role that courts have in protecting people's rights. But if there was ever a time to defer, it is when Congress is protecting voting rights in the exact way the Constitution directs it to.
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We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.
