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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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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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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By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.
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The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.
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When 'Raw Like Sushi' came out in the U.S., I wasn't considered to be black enough. They didn't really know where to put me. The music wasn't 'black black' sounding. It wasn't R&B; it wasn't straight up hip-hop, although obviously in that dimension and world.
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I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
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When I left law school, I wanted to go into the government, into the tax policy area. I got the job that I wanted in the International Tax Council's office in Treasury. I arrived determined to change the world. But I discovered very quickly that the world couldn't care less. And I couldn't stomach the lying and stealing that I witnessed. I realized that the only difference between my mother's family and the senators and administrators that I was working with was that the latter wore suits and ties.
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No one knows what women want!
