Alice Dreger Quotes
Ironically, when I've asked my straight friends to join me in hanging a rainbow flag, they answer, 'But someone might think we're gay,' not realizing that is exactly the point. To be mistaken for the oppressed is to momentarily become the oppressed.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.
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The core of my personality consists of many selves.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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For makeup, a bit of blusher - what you call bronzer - a bit of an eye, and an eyelash curler.
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I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
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By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population.
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I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.
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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
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Ironically, when I've asked my straight friends to join me in hanging a rainbow flag, they answer, 'But someone might think we're gay,' not realizing that is exactly the point. To be mistaken for the oppressed is to momentarily become the oppressed.
