Philomena Kwao Quotes
It isn't hard to see how the lack of representation affects the self esteem of many women world wide.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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I can't even go down to the park anymore back home in Newark, New Jersey because my homeboys won't let me play. They tell me I'm too big time, too Hollywood, so they won't let me play out there no more.
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I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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I would like to be known as one of the best actors in the world because that is something that I would have earned. And being sexiest would come from my genes... it is something I was born with and not earned it for myself.
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One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world.
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To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To satisfy ourselves, to teach our lovers to satisfy us, to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humor, to make them visible so they cannot be ravaged in the dark without great consequence, so that our center, our point, our motor, our dream, is no longer detached, mutilated, numb, broken, invisible, or ashamed.
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It isn't hard to see how the lack of representation affects the self esteem of many women world wide.
