Anita Borg Quotes
Women are starting something like twice as many companies as men, but the money is primarily going to companies started by men.
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Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.
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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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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
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From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.
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I think it's chauvinistic to think that women don't like to get scared.
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I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.
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I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it's sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It's a very laborious process, but I love doing it.
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Women are starting something like twice as many companies as men, but the money is primarily going to companies started by men.
