Abigail Padgett Quotes
Prisoners, slaves, women and children, the sick, weak, disabled, animals, the earth itself – all were fair game for the cruel sport of those who had power. It was wrong, it was evil, but it was a fact of life.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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I'm no different than any other human being. I play music for a living, and we're very blessed.
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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.
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I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
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For many young men, joining in a radical movement is a way of feeling powerful, which is particularly intoxicating for men who feel their masculinity has been called into question, whether through victimisation or a failure to achieve the status that they feel they are entitled to.
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The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure of economic scarcity falls ever more heavily on one key residual, and that single shortage looms ever more stringent and controlling. The governing scarcity of the information economy is time: the shards of a second, the hours in a day, the years in a life, the latency of memory, the delay in aluminum wires, the time to market, the time to metastasis, the time to retirement.
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Sometimes in the studio movies I've been working in, you'll put a joke in a movie because the crowd loves it - not because I love it.
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Prisoners, slaves, women and children, the sick, weak, disabled, animals, the earth itself – all were fair game for the cruel sport of those who had power. It was wrong, it was evil, but it was a fact of life.
