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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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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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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I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
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When my record comes on, you know that's a DJ Khaled record. That's my formula, and the people love it.
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It makes sense - you wanna gather a lot of people together, and Vegas really does that well. New York can, but you know the hassles. I've lived there. It's an entirely different beast.
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It's our heritage: we Democrats, we dream a lot.
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We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq.
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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.
