Anne Fausto-Sterling Quotes
Scientists who do deny their politics—who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex—are fooling both themselves and the public at large.
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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
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In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
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Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
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Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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I have never seen homosexual chicken or turkey.
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I have no idea what 'method actor' means.
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
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I know that I'll end up being a role model for many, many people out there for all kinds of reasons.
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Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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Scientists who do deny their politics—who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex—are fooling both themselves and the public at large.
