Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Quotes
Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies are on the rise, and many minority protests that I have witnessed say, in effect, “Do not racially profile us, we are Americans.
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It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, silk flowers and things.
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Our first album didn't work because we tried to be something we're not.
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When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.
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It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.
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Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.
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There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
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Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.
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Iran is the latest expression of a deep, ancient, powerful culture that's different than ours. And we don't know how it's going to play itself out.
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Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.
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The mandate given to me was one of change.
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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies are on the rise, and many minority protests that I have witnessed say, in effect, “Do not racially profile us, we are Americans.
