Dawn Johnsen Quotes
The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.
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And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.
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There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be 'taught' - is disturbing.
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I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.
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It's supposed to be fun. You should come to work every day and not have insecurities and not be self-conscious; just be your wonderful, perfect self.
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'Step Brothers' is probably the film the most people who approach me want to talk about.
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The first Disney movie I saw I think was 'Snow White.' I loved all the Disney princess movies.
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I'm a director because I directed a movie. And if I have any advice for people, it's, 'Go write something; go direct it. If that's what you have a desire to do, go do it. If the movie stinks, just put it on the shelf and try to do it again.'
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There is only so much I can understand and not screw up.
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Everything changes with time. I am not so experienced enough to analyze what the people love in me.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't. Losing friends or parents is not the same. To lose a child is beyond comprehension. It defies biology. It contradicts the natural order of history and genealogy. It derails common sense. It violates time. It creates a huge, black, bottomless hole that swallows all hope.
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A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space. (p. 73)
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I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.
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The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.
