Meghan O'Rourke Quotes
My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.
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I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.
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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.
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Why push people away? I love when people come up to me and say they appreciate the work!
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Looking at flowers, simple things in life. I don't need to look at gold and a castle; sometimes its very simple things that are very beautiful. I am keeping my eyes fresh to find beauty in many places, and in gold, too, sometimes!
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A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.
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If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.
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My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.
