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'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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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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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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I adore 'The Chipmunks.'
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But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
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Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.
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The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
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If India hadn't become a troubled space for me, somehow I wouldn't have any reason to write about it. So the fact that it's a lost love, or something, is why I keep thinking about it obsessively.
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There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
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He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill 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.
