Alexa Hirschfeld Quotes
There are challenging days - but I'd tell people they should really do what they are interested in and not think about their gender.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the story behind the injunction is in a legal-free world on Twitter and the Internet. It's pointless.
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There are challenging days - but I'd tell people they should really do what they are interested in and not think about their gender.
