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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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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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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I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.
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Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.
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I love shopping in New York just because you walk around and find a little store you've never saw before, and you're like, 'Oh what's that? This is my new favorite place.' I love that about New York.
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When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.
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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.
