Nina Turner Quotes
I'm always amazed to hear my more conservative colleagues talking about how they care about life. They're pro-life, but when it comes down to safe work environments that allow for unions, being able to pay for child care, having family leave - they don't care about any of that. That's where I argue that they're not pro-life, they're pro-birth.
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
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The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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Sleep with a dog and rise full of fleas.
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Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.
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Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.
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I'm always amazed to hear my more conservative colleagues talking about how they care about life. They're pro-life, but when it comes down to safe work environments that allow for unions, being able to pay for child care, having family leave - they don't care about any of that. That's where I argue that they're not pro-life, they're pro-birth.
