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 made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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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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For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.
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Exceptional businesses sustain bottom-line results, which they invest to create meaningful, positive impact for their stakeholders.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.
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The OGP is something that has brought the world community together.
