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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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.
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To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.
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We should not argue with the blind man who maintained that sight was an illusion to which some abnormal people were subject. Therefore in speaking of religious experience I do not attempt to prove the existence of religious experience...
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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Religious liberty should mean religious liberty for everyone, employees as well.
