Jeannette Walls Quotes
I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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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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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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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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Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.
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As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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p. 97-98: As quoted in: S.P. Sector (1997). A Study of Issues Relating to the Patentability of Biotechnological Subject Matter. Footnote 51.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.
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I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.
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I want to take people away from the ugliness and sadness around us every day and bring beautiful, deep music to as many people as I can.
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I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.
