Mildred Dresselhaus Quotes
Mentoring is about listening to people, helping them go over what the issues are and how to clarify ways to deal with any problems that may arise.
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.
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Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
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I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.
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I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.
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It is not only the people of Gaza that can't afford having a fourth war - all the world cannot afford this.
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People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.
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I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
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Peace has been as bad as war. Peace has killed as many people as war. Peace is as bad. Peace is as bad...
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None are so interested in maintaining the institutions of the country as the working classes. The rich and the powerful will not find much difficulty under any circumstances in maintaining their rights, but the privileges of the people can only be defended and secured by popular institutions.
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It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday.
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Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.
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'Idol' was a great experience. It was a great stepping-stone. I got to meet a lot of amazing people through that and learn a lot of great things. But afterward - that's what I tell a lot of people - it's up to you to represent it as an artist.
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God is pretty explicit in what we're supposed to do - what man and woman are for. Now, at the same time, we're supposed to love everybody and accept people, and preach against the sins.
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Mentoring is about listening to people, helping them go over what the issues are and how to clarify ways to deal with any problems that may arise.
