Margaret Mead Quotes
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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The Greeks invented both their artistic and scientific novelties after the interiorization of the alphabet. (p. 66)
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I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.
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It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
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He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful.
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Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.
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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
