- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Way Quotes
Quotes on finding your own way.
These quotes describe the 'way' things really work - a blunt take on how managers actually get ahead in their careers, and a tongue-in-cheek trick for looking fit without the work. Related reading includes Best Quotes.
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- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not naive. All politics is about identity, right? Neighborhood politics, cultural politics, issue politics. It's not as though I don't get that. It's just - it has to be, I think, tempered in a way that is for our overall advancement and not to our detriment or obliteration. When I say 'our,' I don't mean just communities of color.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In tech communities, we consider disruption the way to lead to innovation.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, I was 'just' a stay at home mum and wife - which, by the way, is harder than any other job I've ever had.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
Zionism needn't continue, and won't continue, to bow its head to a system of individual rights interpreted in a universal way.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear symptom of bipolar disorder. And I'm not saying that every, you know, I'm not accusing every memoirist of being bipolar. But I think in a way it's kind of a gift.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a long part of my childhood repressing my more animalistic desire systems, and in a way, it permits me to do some of the stuff that I would want to be doing in a way that's more comfortable and doesn't break my internal rules. It expands the realm of possibility.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.
- Marriages
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no way the marriages could have survived. Nor do I regret that they didn't.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the most vulgar thing about Hollywood is the way it believes its own gossip.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.
- Burma
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked for it because they believe that this is the only way we can maintain the dignity of our people.
- Burma
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- Nov 07, 2020