Ann Oakley Quotes
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
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I still believe in love. I believe in marriage.
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I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.
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I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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I dug deep, and I found that there were people who voted for Obama and then voted for Trump - because they saw what they believed was going to be hope and change, and under Obama, their particular lives did not change.
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I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.
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I like to think of myself as the girl that no one can get, that no one can keep in their hand.
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
