Major Owens Quotes
It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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I don't like allegories.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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Post 9/11, brown people had this force pushing us together. It's like we're all being looked at with fear and suspicion; we're all being targeted, so how do you support yourself and your communities?
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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Southern black gay and bi men are suffering from a self-esteem issue.
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When I went to prom, I wore my hair down. But I love the idea of a long dress with your hair up. It's just gorgeous.
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The situation of America is new in the annals of mankind; her affairs cry haste, and speed must answer them.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
