Alison Bechdel Quotes

Ginger: hauling Clarice up stairs in a wheelchair: This ivory tower needs some ramps!Clarice: What are you saying, Ginger?! Build ramps and anyone could get up!! The whole school would be overrun by black commie dykes in wheelchairs! Really, now!

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• I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Game
  • Black
  • Choose

• Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Real
  • Kids

• We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • School
  • Africa
  • Canada

• The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • American
  • War
  • Key

• I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Experience
  • Parents
  • Travel

• I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • School
  • Worry
  • Thought

• I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Day
  • Ideas
  • Challenges

• If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • You
  • Beginning
  • Intelligence

• I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.

  

  Ursula Andress
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  • Live
  • Run

• Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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  • Mind
  • Thought

• My father is an amazing person. While he was a huge star, he never carried his stardom home and always remained simple and just our father at home. I have four siblings, and we were all very grounded. We lived a very simple life: would go in an auto rickshaw to school, played with normal boys.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • School
  • Home

• I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Up
  • World
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• Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would come up with some kind of technological thing.

  

  Pat Cadigan
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• She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?

  

  Kaia Gerber
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• Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

  

  Rand Beers
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  • Situation
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• My dad is from the army, and so we studied all over. I had done an Onida campaign at the age of two, as my mom always had this inclination for me to model, but my dad was clear that I could model only when I turned 18, so immediately after school, I started modelling.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • School
  • Done
  • Age

• Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • High
  • Success

• To say that the cross emblazoned with the papal coat of arms, and set up by the indulgence preachers, is equal in worth to the cross of Christ is blasphemy.

  

  Martin Luther
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• The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
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  • May

• I was an avid Pokemon card collector.

  

  Flume
  • Card
  • Collector
  • Avid

• I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • High
  • Think
  • Team

• I'm a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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  • Big

• Ginger: hauling Clarice up stairs in a wheelchair: This ivory tower needs some ramps!Clarice: What are you saying, Ginger?! Build ramps and anyone could get up!! The whole school would be overrun by black commie dykes in wheelchairs! Really, now!

  

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