Ai-jen Poo Quotes
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.
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Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.
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I grew up in the Seattle suburbs - the suburbs of suburbs. Where I'm from, it's super quiet, just woods and nothing.
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All I can say is, I don't encourage younger kids to read my books, and actually, the biggest age group on my Facebook page is 25- to 35-year-old women.
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People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.
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Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.
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On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.
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I'm proud of my office. I'm proud of the work that we do.
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It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
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It says something very deep about humans and our society, something very good about us, that we've invested our time and treasure in building a machine that can fly across three billion miles of space to explore the Pluto system.
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A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.
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And that’s why we support societies that empower women - because no country will reach its potential unless it draws on the talents of our wives and our mothers, and our sisters and our daughters.
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The media is really failing the American people.
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Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.
