Agnes Smedley Quotes
There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
Quotes to Explore
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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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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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It really comes down to being able to inspire others by being comfortable with yourself. You have to show girls that everyone is different; everyone has things they don't like, but they work it and walk the runway.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.
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I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.
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No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
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To win the Kentucky Derby is the goal of every trainer, every hot-walker, every backside person. They may be just rubbing on a horse, or hot-walking a horse, but they wonder if they could win the Kentucky Derby.
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Distinction between person and office is wholly alien to the teaching of Jesus. He says nothing about that. He addresses his disciples as men who have left all to follow him, and the precept of non-violence applies equally to private life and official duty. He is the Lord of all life, and demands undivided allegiance.
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There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
