Alice James Quotes
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Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.
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When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
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My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.
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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
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When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.
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Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.
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I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.
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Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. Then here's to the heartening wassail, wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.
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It was a simple question any employee should ask: 'Oh and by the way, how do I get my health insurance to be seamless?'
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Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.
