Alice Dreger Quotes

When I talk about intersex, people ask me, 'But what about the locker room?' Yes, what about the locker room? If so many people feel trepidation around it, why don't we fix the locker room? There are ways to signal to children that they are not the problem, and normalization technologies are not the way.

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• Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.

  

  Parker Posey
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• I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
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• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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• My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.

  

  Vance McAllister
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• People die because they find living too painful.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
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• We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

  

  Jack Dangermond
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• It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum's always said that's why I'm so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.

  

  Daniel Ek
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• At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

  

  e. e. cummings
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• Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

  

  Harold Prince
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• Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

  Nastassja Kinski
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• What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
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• Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people.

  

  Bassem Youssef
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• Houston's one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that.

  

  Laura Moser
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• To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.

  

  Barry Manilow
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• Any increase in surveillance of marginalized communities for the sake of security theater have expanded the cycle of criminalization that queer people - especially queer people of color - are forced to navigate.

  

  Chelsea Manning
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• I'm not going to try to be too young because at the end of the day, I'm not 20 anymore. I don't want to sound corny or look corny doing young things. All the stuff that the kids are doing, that's not my place. I believe that everyone followed me back then, they're still here. That's who I'm trying to talk to and relate to. All the trap music and all of that, it's great but I can't do that. I'm going to stay vintage Ginuwine and stay at the place that got me here. That's what people want.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
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• Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.

  

  Terence McKenna
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• So often, we take photos on our iPhone, and then they're gone in a year, and we don't even remember them. I like to experience life and disconnect from that.

  

  Karamo Brown
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• Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.

  

  Plato
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• When I talk about intersex, people ask me, 'But what about the locker room?' Yes, what about the locker room? If so many people feel trepidation around it, why don't we fix the locker room? There are ways to signal to children that they are not the problem, and normalization technologies are not the way.

  

  Alice Dreger
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