Megan Rapinoe Quotes
We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.
Quotes to Explore
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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We should never forget that Americans continue to advocate for individual liberty, equality and self-governance. We often step in when it's necessary to help countries in need. But our history needs no whitewashing. To attempt this does us a terrible disservice.
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I love dancing and practiced ballet for ten years until I realized I wouldn't make it professionally - then I started taking salsa classes. I learned to dance samba in Rio and Salvador when I lived in Brazil.
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If I were to be a role model, it would just come out of going the college route, getting training, and trusting that's the most secure path you can take - a path where a degree is involved. You know you went to college, and you have that under your belt.
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I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.
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We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.
