Alaya Dawn Johnson Quotes
The big, defining feature of Palmares Tres government is its system of summer kings. The idea is that women 'Aunties' rule, led by a queen with a term limit of 10 years. Men aren't entirely shut out from this system - in fact, they have one of the most important roles in the government - but it's strictly delimited.
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Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.
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Preventing liquidation of an unbalanced market will leave you in tears.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.
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The big, defining feature of Palmares Tres government is its system of summer kings. The idea is that women 'Aunties' rule, led by a queen with a term limit of 10 years. Men aren't entirely shut out from this system - in fact, they have one of the most important roles in the government - but it's strictly delimited.
