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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So many of my films involve houses or homes that have been abandoned. People trying to get back home. That's an idea that I keep dealing with.
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As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.
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Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.
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Selfishness is blind.
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Thanks to former President George W. Bush - remember the compassionate conservative? - I have a good name for the fundamental principle that should guide the Democratic alternative: compassionate deficit reduction.
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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.
