Dean Spade Quotes
We should understand that in the context of the US, where our legal system is based in settler colonialism, capitalism and white supremacy, changing laws will never sufficiently change the conditions of harm and violence our movements seek to transform.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I would love to be a role model.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.
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In New Hampshire, we know that small businesses and entrepreneurs are the engines of economic growth in the 21st-century economy, and our state has long been defined by the entrepreneurial spirit of our people.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
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I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
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Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.
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The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.
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It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.
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My dad, he's definitely one of greatest writers of his generation. There is no question about it. When you are that good, when work is that good, you have to appreciate every aspect of it. It's the architecture of it, it's like looking at a Frank Lloyd Wright building or a Lautner building, it's master craftsmanship. Every aspect of it intertwines in a perfectly harmonious way. That's what architecture is at its best and the architecture of my father's music is on that level.
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We should understand that in the context of the US, where our legal system is based in settler colonialism, capitalism and white supremacy, changing laws will never sufficiently change the conditions of harm and violence our movements seek to transform.
