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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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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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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There are who separate the eternal light In forms of man and woman, day and night; They cannot bear that God be essence quite.
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They didn't understand that she held his heart, held it so utterly that there was nothing he wouldn't do, no line he wouldn't cross to keep her safe.
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Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.
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By the end of Barber's talk, this event she's celebrating sounds like a product of the imagination of some master of speculative fiction like Philip K. Dick or Ray Bradbury—a mad dystopia in which feminist dreams have led to a forest full of separate clearings in which more and more women keep to smaller and smaller groups for fear of encountering difference.
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Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.
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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.
