Shirley Ann Manson Quotes
I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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I'm excited to join the StyleHaul community and bring new content to my fans.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!
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Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive.
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I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.
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I went to a predominantly white school, and I was the only black girl. I can remember thinking, 'I don't want to be as dark as I am - I want to be a little fairer.' I didn't want to be me.
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I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.
