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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Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
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To be a legend, we have to make a lot of right moves and great music.
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Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.
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Britain needs an education system that is appropriate to both society and the individual - and it is wrong to pretend that watering down academic standards in pursuit of universal achievement will do that.
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There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.
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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.
