Allison Pearson Quotes
My strong sense now is that, as women have become more equal in society, so their depictions onscreen have become lamer and lamer and lamer, to the point that it's an embarrassment.
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Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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I think it's cool people love to hate me.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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It's a great thing to be underestimated because it puts off your rival or enemy - they're not on their full game if they underestimate you.
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I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become so accepted now, and somebody said, 'You know the Oprah show, I think has had a big impact.'" I said, I don't think so. We did several transgender [shows], but we didn't do as much for transgender as I did for, say, abused kids or battered women. And they said, "But no, you started the conversation. You started the conversation and the conversation has led us to here."
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I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.
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It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
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My strong sense now is that, as women have become more equal in society, so their depictions onscreen have become lamer and lamer and lamer, to the point that it's an embarrassment.
