Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Quotes
If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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When Rakesh Roshan called me for 'Khoon Bhari Maang,' it was supposed to be a six month shoot, but I ended up staying for four years doing 12 films.
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
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I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.
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The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This turf must be shared.
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If you're not willing to accept the pain real values incur, don't bother going to the trouble of formulating a values statement. You'll be better off without one.
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As a formal analytical point of reference, primacy of orientation to the attainment of a specific goal is used as the defining characteristic of an organization which distinguishes it from other types of social systems.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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Couples in their 30s are having trouble having kids. And you just kind of extrapolate that and say, 'What if it happened to everybody? What kind of society would it be like if all of a sudden we knew that this was the end of the line - we couldn't have kids?'
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The main criticism that I get is, 'Aren't you just conforming to a patriarchal standard of beauty?' Well, this is just the body I was given. I didn't do anything to it - it's just my body. But even if I had altered it, that would be fine, too.
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The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
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'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
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The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends.
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Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.
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I've turned down a lot of proposed scripts for Scrubs episodes, mainly ones with AIDs patients. It sickens me, really. If you don't want AIDs, don't be a ice cream man. Or African. I'm neither and I'm fine.
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When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall.
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
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If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.
