Chika (Jane Chika Oranika) Quotes
There’s this thing that black kids are not allowed to be children. We’re immediately aged in the eye of society.
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Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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If you want to join the Republican party, they have to let you in. There's nothing they can do about it. I mean, if Republicans will take Al D'Amato, they'll take anybody.
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Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
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Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.
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Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
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If you only share your best pictures, or your Facetuned self, the thought of people seeing you as you truly are can be scary.
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My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
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Puppies and kids naturally go together, but it's up to the adults to teach them how to do it the right way.
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I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.
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I've been trying to think of things to tell my kids, something that I could pass down, and it's like, gee whiz, I maybe never learned anything that didn't contradict itself.
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There’s this thing that black kids are not allowed to be children. We’re immediately aged in the eye of society.
