Megan Rapinoe Quotes
Homophobia in male sports is much stronger than in women's sports; the locker room environment is a lot different. It's going to be much more of a brave step, an earthshaking move, for a gay male athlete to come out.
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The world is always in movement.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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The conventional wisdom in an election year is that nothing will get done until after the election.
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Have you ever visited the factory farms? Well, I have seen them. I've seen the chicken ones, which are quite horrifying. And I have put my head in others. But the whole thing nauseates me more than I can tell you. To see meat produced in that way made it impossible for me to eat meat.
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Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.
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Homophobia in male sports is much stronger than in women's sports; the locker room environment is a lot different. It's going to be much more of a brave step, an earthshaking move, for a gay male athlete to come out.
