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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The worst thing about our political system is that people debate; I wish our politicians were able to talk to each other rather than scream while trying to gain sound bites.
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I am always telling students that a story is not just words. You can tell a story with dance or paint or music. Kids and adults are visual learners, auditory learners. There are those of us who need to touch it. Storytelling encompasses so much more than words on paper.
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I the chief of sinners am, but Jesus died for me.
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Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
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A riveting and realistic portrayal of space travel gone wrong, and of a crew who must fight for their survival. Bones Burnt Black is exciting, and expertly told. A must-listen.
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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.
