Anita Borg Quotes
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The migration wave can be stopped.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
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Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.
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The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.
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My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
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Sometimes I'll go with a long hijab, or sometimes I'll wear my scarf and go somewhat business-y with a blazer. Every day is something new.
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My least favorite thing about New York is probably the traffic. I hate it. The people are such aggressive drivers here, they're horrible.
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All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.
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I grew up in a tiny village on top of a mountain and have been skiing and singing all my life!
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I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
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