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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America has always been a land of diversity, basically made up of immigrants, and that is something I want to see continued. It's something I'm proud of when people think of America.
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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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TV chefs are not responsible for people's consumption of fibre; this is not our job.
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
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The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.
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Time travel is such a magic concept.
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No longer are the days where I just kind of fly under the radar. Everybody's recognizing me. Everybody wants pictures. They feel inspired. It's very cool.
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I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.
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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.
