Catherine Helen Spence Quotes
South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.
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It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
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To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.
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One of my favorite experiences in my career, certainly one of the most interesting characters I've ever played, was Simon Lee on 'The Event.' That was a show I was quite proud of and a character I really enjoyed playing. It was one of the most three-dimensional characters that was ever written for me and that I'd ever gotten to play.
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In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.
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For me, the key is years of the blessed filmmakers I've worked with giving me permission to be bold and jump off cliffs and to be boundaryless. I would put David Lynch at the top of that list.
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Your anger is a gift.
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It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
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Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
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I've always been able to shoot the ball, so it's just about continuing to work on your shot and shoot the ball. That's the main thing. Got to get those shots up.
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I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.
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I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.
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Google keeps their formulas secret even as they devour more of our habits. CEO Eric Schmidt believes that what customers want is for Google to “tell them what they should be doing next.” Such pronouncements awaken fears of Big Brother or The Matrix. We may need to reclaim our agency, our responsibility.
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It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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Directing is a tremendous art.
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South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.
