Ian Somerhalder Quotes
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
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In my 20s, I wanted to be hot; now I want to be healthy.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
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I naturally want to be provocative.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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What I had noticed is that there weren't a lot of women lining up to see a comic book movie, but they were going to line up to see 'The Devil Wears Prada,' which may have been something I wanted to address.
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We want the fans to discover and explore.
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Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.
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People aren't inherently sympathetic.
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I was 21. At the time, I was under the thumb of my label, and I felt like I had to do, say and act out everything they asked me to do. I was trying to please them and the public and finally I had to say, "Enough. I'm going to make a record that makes me happy and addresses all facets of being a woman. I don't care if I sell one or one million records." That's how I came to make Stripped.
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No one knows what women want!
