Annalee Newitz Quotes
Critics have called alien epic 'Avatar' a version of 'Dances With Wolves' because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy.

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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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If you sold a million records, the only way you could be disappointed is if the guy down the street sold seven million. But you've got to start dodging bullets once you've sold that many records, because everybody wants to kill you. We're not in that position. We can still be very successful and not have to worry about wearing bulletproof vests.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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The only thing 'championship' about Wimbledon is its prestige.
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Critics have called alien epic 'Avatar' a version of 'Dances With Wolves' because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy.