Amanda Marcotte Quotes
The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies can be challenged with evidence and reason, but religion is allowed a pass by most people. And that's why it's especially dangerous.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.
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You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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I can't hold a grudge anyway.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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It was one of those things that I set forth as a goal after my surgery. I have been working very hard with the trainers and the team personnel.
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People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
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We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.
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Big stories need human stakes.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.
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When you work on getting better at something, don't do it half speed
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When I'm shooting films, I write and play music when I come home.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
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The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies can be challenged with evidence and reason, but religion is allowed a pass by most people. And that's why it's especially dangerous.
