Neera Tanden Quotes
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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I want to be acting until the day I die!
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I never said half the things I said.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.
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I care about writing music and playing my music.
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Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
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In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
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There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
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On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.
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One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.
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Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
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The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.
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Religious liberty should mean religious liberty for everyone, employees as well.
