Adam Gidwitz Quotes
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
J. D. Vance
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.
Wendy Davis
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund Burke
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When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.
Kapil Sibal
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I had to have shoulder reconstruction.
Daniel Craig
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
Tasha Smith
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
Floyd Skloot
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
Mahesh Babu
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
Katee Sackhoff
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
Walter O'Brien
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
Kate Smith
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
Hannah Simone
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
Edgardo Osorio
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
Sam Shepard
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Before the whole world, I accuse you, German intellectuals, you non-Nazis, as those truly guilty of all these Nazi crimes, all this lamentable breakdown of a great people - a destruction which shames the whole white race.
Bronisław Huberman
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I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
Vera Farmiga
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If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.
Adam Ferrara
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You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.
A. S. Byatt
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With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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Home is where you can be yourself.
Adam Gidwitz