Aruna Roy Quotes
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
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I'm not jealous, and I'm not possessive, and I'm not controlling.
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Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.
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I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
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The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.
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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'
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Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
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The thing is, it's that Detroiters are hard workers. We've always been hard workers, even when times are down. I've been able to take that with me, that work ethic, to help me build my career.
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You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford. That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.
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Swampy [ Marsh] and I live as far away from each other as we possibly can and still work together. But we just always felt like we were funnier when we were in the room together than we are when we're separate.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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The OGP is something that has brought the world community together.
