Mary Pilon Quotes
The conditions for harassment are built into the very structure of the trucking business, beginning with the training process.
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I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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Being evil is easy.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.
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Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.
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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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Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.
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We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing new to us. This is not a new venture for us. It's who we are and have been from the very beginning of the history of the Catholic Church in this country.
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People, including business leaders, are willing to be open-minded about investment dollars when they know where they are going - and what purpose they are going to be dedicated - as opposed to just going into the black abyss of the general fund.
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The conditions for harassment are built into the very structure of the trucking business, beginning with the training process.
