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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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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In fighting terror, you cannot let it interfere with the normal life of civilians in Israel.
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I think that with our 'Made in America' segments, where we go out to these factories all around the country, is essentially giving people a high-five and signal to them that we're in this together.
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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In my view, the biggest challenge facing this country is that we are not living within our means. Spending cuts can only get us halfway there.
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We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.
