Beeban Kidron Quotes
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
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Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.
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As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'
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In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.
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So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.
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My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.
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I'm on Twitter. I created my account for my fans, and I do respond back once in a while, because they're so great.
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When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.
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I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
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When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
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My family is more important than my party.
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And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.
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I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences. I believe that if Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus, and Moses all got together they would be best of friends because the spiritual basis of all religions is something that builds unity.
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I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.
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If I'm screaming at someone, it's because I think they're an idiot.
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I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither.
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When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old Austria were brought up to respect old people and women. But on our professors we had no mercy; they were our natural enemies. The majority of them were somewhat mentally deranged, and quite a few ended their days as honest-to-God lunatics! . . . I was in particular bad odor with the teachers. I showed not the slightest aptitude for foreign languages - though I might have, had not the teacher been a congenital idiot. I could not bear the sight of him.
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Bigotry doesn't care about state or regional lines. It's all over the place. But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it's about perception and balance sometimes I think.
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Part of our strategy was also to impress the Russian media. We needed to show them that they had to get rid of all the stereotypes about gays.
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I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.
