Ida B. Wells Quotes
I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.
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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford. That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.
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I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.
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Thirty-six million / miles of whispering welcome. / Mars, you called us home.
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The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.
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Being a mum means you have a very real stake in the future of our country.
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I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.
