Anita Borg Quotes
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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 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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In life, you have to go through something to get to something. From that, the inspiration comes having something of substance to talk about; otherwise you're just considered to be fluff.
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I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.
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There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.
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I happen to consider myself a Highlander even before a Scot; I am proud to be British yet feel comfortable as a European citizen.
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What we've found is a whole new pattern of change that we hadn't thought of before. They changed their attitude toward the colony over time - and they really adapted to the reality they found in Virginia.
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