Barbara Bush Quotes
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.
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Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
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The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.
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People are going to label you anyway, but the one that bugs me the most is when they say, 'One of the funniest female comedians.' There's s no 'funniest male comedians.' You're either a funny comedian, or you're not!
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.
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I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
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I've had a lot of coaches in my life, but I've only had a few very good ones. So, I try to take from the best ones and apply those to what I do and think and with anyone I work with in terms of how to motivate people and work with them.
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Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.
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I really have been lucky because I've always had a very healthy attitude to my body.
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I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child - I've been interested in poems, but not so much for what the take home pay is, what you might sum up from them in moral or intellectual terms or whatever, but what's in the certain lines and how lines relates to other lines.
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When you meet someone, there's an initial reaction and then as you get to know them, things change, things deepen, or they go the other way.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
