Jeanne Shaheen Quotes
If we really care about impacting countries around the world and their economic futures, then what we need to do is empower women.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
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The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
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I wake when my wife wakes, at 7:30 A.M. I'd like to sleep longer, but she has to go off to work, and I'd be plagued with guilt.
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I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
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Men always like to please women. Women like to please men, too - some women. Some are very good at it.
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The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it.
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The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
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Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.
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If we really care about impacting countries around the world and their economic futures, then what we need to do is empower women.
