Eileen Pollack Quotes
If you're a white male growing up in this society, you're constantly receiving encouragement to go on in science in the form of all the images that you're receiving.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I don't get star-struck at all.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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I still keep my accent.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
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Do people have an idea of who they think I am? Yes, and that's fine with me. My music will speak for itself.
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'Well,' said Dr Jochum, 'you are like all reformers. You like to reform the world because it is easier than trying to reform yourself.'
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If I want to hand one of my old shotguns that I've had for 50 years to my grandkid one day, I have to go through a federal transfer? It's crazy.
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Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not.
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If you're a white male growing up in this society, you're constantly receiving encouragement to go on in science in the form of all the images that you're receiving.
