Caster Semenya Quotes
If someone was born the way she was born, are you going to blame him, or are you going to blame God? Whose fault is that? Nobody's.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.
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I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.
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Not everything can be solved quickly.
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Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man.
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When we give trust, we receive trust. And people who trust us pay attention to us.
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Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.
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The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened.
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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
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Example is the best lesson there is.
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Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.
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One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.
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As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
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If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.
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If someone was born the way she was born, are you going to blame him, or are you going to blame God? Whose fault is that? Nobody's.
