Pauline Phillips Quotes
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
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If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x × y is less than y.
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I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.
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Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We've always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds awful, it's the first time in the history of recorded music that it sounds worse. It's really - and it's everywhere, it's ubiquitous.
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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
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It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
