Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes
One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.Eleanor Holmes Norton
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov -
Trump's campaign slogan resonates strongly with a large population of Americans. 'Make America Great Again' portrays a nostalgia for what America once was, and a longing desire to return to that time. Millennials unfortunately don't know first-hand that time which Trump is talking about.
Dana Perino -
You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
Dale Archer -
I think women have the right to consult their own wishes, needs, and capacities and produce only loved, wanted children they can care for - or even no children at all. I think we would all be better off as a society if we respected women's ability to make these decisions for themselves and concentrated on caring well for the born.
Katha Pollitt -
You have to find out how to become the character.
Kara Hayward -
I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
Kara DioGuardi
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
Adam McKay -
There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
Babyface -
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
Jaan Tallinn -
I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
Ziggy Marley -
I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
Olivia Colman
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
Barbara Demick -
That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.
Vaclav Klaus -
It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
L'Wren Scott -
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
Orison Swett Marden -
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Dale Turner -
I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
Yolanda Adams
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What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.
Christina Aguilera -
For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side.
Daniel Morgan -
Just as it sometimes happens that deformed offspring are produced by deformed parents, and sometimes not, so the offspring produced by a female are sometimes female, sometimes not, but male, because the female is as it were a deformed male.
Aristotle -
As a small kid, I had this huge desire to be thought of as really clever.
Lenny Abrahamson -
We must find a way to balance our tradition as a state welcoming of refugees while ensuring the safety and security of our citizens.
Bruce Rauner -
One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.
Eleanor Holmes Norton