Anita Borg Quotes
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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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 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 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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We have a saying in the union: 'If a fellow looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, the possibility is that he is a duck.' That is the way with a Communist. If the guy does everything that the party does, the prospects are very good that he is a party member or fellow traveler.
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The world knows only two, - that's Rome and I.
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Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.
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As president, Barack Obama has the potential to finally bring our country together to meet the enormous challenges ahead. This includes restoring economic prosperity, moving toward energy independence, delivering affordable health care for all, and implementing a responsible, effective foreign policy.
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There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.
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It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.
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Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
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