Reshma Saujani Quotes
Coding is the language of the future, and every girl should learn it. As I've learned from watching girls grow and learn in our classrooms, coding is fun, collaborative and creative.
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Everybody needs money, but I'm a fighter. For what I make, I'm happy with what I make. The money is not everything; it's about honor.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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I love painting so much that nothing else matters.
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line.
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I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
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I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
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Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
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I want to go see Somalia because I've never been there, and I feel like I'm missing out. I want to learn that heritage; I want to learn about my culture.
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People have been introduced to our band in so many ways. Whether we were playing at their college or we were the record that entertained their kids with.
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With Brexit and the U.S. election, it's become clear that a lot of people have been thinking a certain way. Nothing has actually changed yet except the fact that it's been brought to light, which is quite a daunting, scary thing to realize.
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I couldn't wait to start the day.
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Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
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Coding is the language of the future, and every girl should learn it. As I've learned from watching girls grow and learn in our classrooms, coding is fun, collaborative and creative.
