Joy Bryant Quotes
When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.
Quotes to Explore
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I just want to do my job.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.
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The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
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Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'
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I never had an ambition to go into modeling, originally. I still can't believe how quickly it all took off.
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Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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What Mathematicians Chiefly consider in Motion is the Mode of Lation or Manner of bearing, and the Quantity of the motive Force. ...But because the Quantity of motive Force cannot be known without Time, we must say something concerning its Nature.
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I love the things that you've given meI cherish you my dear countryBut sometimes I don't understand the way we play
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O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, Is this the handiwork you give to God, This monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenched?
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I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.
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I don't mind having people over, but it's weird how much more withdrawn I've become than being social in public places, I guess.
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When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the time of Islam's founding more than 1,300 years earlier. Afghan women's lives offered the most visible sign of the imagined past to which Afghanistan's present was to be returned.
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Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.
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Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
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Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.
