Joshua Slocum Quotes
Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.
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There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense of self.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.
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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
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My children were brought up with their grandparents, and I was brought up with my grandparents. I think the continuity of moving through life together gives people a certain pride and sense of security.
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As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.
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Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.
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Mormons aren't gonna buy my album but, you know, what are you gonna do?
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She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't know what to do about it. This was her life: magic and shame and secrets and teeth and a deep, nagging hollow at the center of herself where something was most certainly missing.
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I've got to work really hard and I know exactly what I've achieved because I know how hard I've worked, and I make sure to work as hard as I absolutely possibly can, because I know that's the only shot I have at being successful.
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Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's ear, and it lives as long as God's ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God's heart is alive to holy things.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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The first lesson my kids got about the ocean was to respect it. You can never turn your back on the ocean when you're dealing with tides and currents - factors beyond your control. You have to be the CEO of your family on the water. CEO stands for 'constant eyes on,' and it's something I never forget.
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... while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.
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They did everything they could to make her renounce her position.
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I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
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I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.
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I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.
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The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.
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When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.
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Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.
