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.

Dean Spade

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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.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
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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 am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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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.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Sometimes
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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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• If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.

  

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  • You
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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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  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
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• It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

  

  Devendra Banhart
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• That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.

  

  Michael Johnson
  • Change
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  • Breath

• I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.

  

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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.

  

  Dean Spade
  • Change
  • Violence
  • Understand