Anita Borg Quotes
It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.
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I think love is always going to be the most important subject for women.
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Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.
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I always wanted to be a hairdresser.
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I'm not a politician, I'm a musician. I care about giving people a place where they can go to enjoy themselves and to begin to live again. To the man you have to give the spirit, and when you give him the spirit, you have done everything.
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It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.
