Jennifer Yuh Nelson Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.
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I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.
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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
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I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.
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If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.
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Nothing can conduce more to the order and stability of a government than the simplicity of the laws, the proper definition of rights, and their impartial and consistent administration.
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Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.
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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
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I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.
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Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.
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The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from?
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We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.
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I called this press conference today to talk about a new challenge that i will face, a personal one – one that requires me, once again, to be an underdog and a fighter. A few days ago, I was diagnosed with cancer, aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma, to be specific – which is a cancer of the lymph nodes.
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I would love to have a role with the Browns. I think that's what every ex-player would like to do most of all: to be a contributor to the success of an organization that he was a player that brought a certain amount of success.
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When I was seven or eight, I was bought a fantastic book called 'The Movie Treasury of Horror Movies' by Alan G. Frank; it became my bible. It's packed full of the most amazing photos and is still fantastic to look at.
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Thinking of the sun causes quick beating of my heart - snowy weather comes on the wind lightly drifting.
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I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.
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I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.
