Deborah Meier Quotes
A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.
Quotes to Explore
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
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Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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Guys back in the day, we didn't have wallets. I never kept my money in my pocket; my money always went in my sock. My key my mom gave me, I put it in my sock - whatever it was.
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You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
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Pain is never permanent.
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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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In 2010, the Spanish constitutional court annulled a large part of the Catalan statute of autonomy negotiated between Catalonia and the previous prime minister, Jose Luis Zapatero. This demolished one of the main agreements achieved during the Spanish transition to democracy - Catalonia's recovery of self-governance.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school.
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Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.
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I think I may just enjoy being behind the camera as much as I like being in front of it.
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The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
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I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.
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The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.
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I always find it much easier when there's one person whose vision you're following, as opposed to many people.
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Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.
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Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.
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Some directors don't tell you that it's not your fault, so you get increasingly depressed that you're not delivering what's required, and then you discover it's not you at all, it's something in the background that's out of focus.
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A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.
