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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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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It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
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If we admit it or not, skiing is a little bit of show biz
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At the Jets training facility in Florham Park, N.J., we have strength and conditioning staff but also a nutritionist, Glen Tobias, who helps to whip everyone into shape. There is a heavy emphasis on grass-fed meat and on foods that aren't genetically modified.
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While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation. Justice is not a gift; it’s a lifestyle, a commitment to the Jewish concept of tikkun olam—‘repairing the world.’
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Prayers truly from the heart open all doors in Heaven.
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This is very rare for anyone in life to pursue something and that thing being the thing you actually most want to do. It's all about the inner, rather than the outer. Whether people like or don't like my work, read it or don't read it, it's just been a gift from the gods that I've been able to sit at my desk for the last almost 50 years and do the things I've wanted to do.
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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.
