Nicholas Stoller Quotes
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Our poker table is eight guys, and then I'm the ninth; I'm usually the only girl at the table.
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I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
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A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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It's the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.
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The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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When women fight for a higher salary, they can often feel guilty. When men fight for more pay, they feel empowered. I've always wanted to encourage women to go after the money they deserve.
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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.
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Research is all well and good, but I definitely enjoy writing the most. I will happily sit at my computer and work on a single paragraph for hours. And there's no better feeling than when your writing is going well.
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We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.
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Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.
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A lot of children find symbolic arithmetic quite difficult and tedious, yet the children loved our tasks. They were games, the children were very happy to play them, and they were also they were good at them.
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We have to learn how to stop being afraid of people who are different than us, who are supposedly our enemies. We are taught that our enemies are there, not that people want to live in peace. They don't want to fight. They just want to live and enjoy life and accomplish things.
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At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.
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Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.
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I personally do not believe I'm irresponsible. Everything I do revolves around my children.
