Alice Dreger Quotes
Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.
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I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I'm not whining and moaning inside as much.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
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I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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Politics ruins the character.
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You can't take a kid from north Alabama and growing up in church - some of that is just gonna seep out.
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On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.
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Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.
