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.
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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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My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master's from NYU. She wanted to be an actress, so when she graduated, she had a dream, and she started following it. She moved to New York and took acting classes with people like Denzel Washington.
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Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.
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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them.
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Commanders-in-chief make really tough decisions.
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When women fight to protect their rights ... they hang on longer than the men
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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.
