Allen Hershkowitz Quotes
The ecological challenges we face are the result of billions of ecologically ignorant decisions made by billions of people over centuries. To address the climate crisis, we now need billions of people to make ecologically intelligent decisions.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.
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America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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I'll always be tough on myself.
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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.
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I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.
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I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
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I'd love to play Wonder Woman.
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I take it hard whenever anything happens that makes, I guess, queer people feel less safe and less welcome in the world.
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We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less spectacular but gathered just as carefully hour by hour, in wind and drift, darkness and cold, was striven for in order that the world may have a little more knowledge, that it may build on what it knows instead of on what it thinks.
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I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most vicious resistance to blackness that whiteness is able to throw up. I engage in a lot of intellectual combat with supremacists and with the predicate of white supremacy and white indifference to black identity, and brown and red and yellow identity too, for that matter.
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After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.
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The ecological challenges we face are the result of billions of ecologically ignorant decisions made by billions of people over centuries. To address the climate crisis, we now need billions of people to make ecologically intelligent decisions.
