Nancy Byrd Turner Quotes
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I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.
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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
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My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
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I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.
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Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
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Easter's nearly here, now.
