Jonathan Dee Quotes
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.
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The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.
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The Taliban has not, in my judgment, in any significant way changed their fundamental goal and objective, which is to take over Afghanistan and return to running that country. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't have negotiation talks with them. I think we should. But we've got to be clear-eyed about it.
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The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
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As Elizabeth Fisher pointed out in Woman's Creation, human history's first and longest reigning social unit was the mother and child, not the husband and wife.
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The sweetest cordial we receive at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.
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You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind.
