I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes.
Joel Gretsch
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When I talk about feminism, sometimes I feel like being a black woman is cast aside.
Jessica Williams
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To be the windowpane - this is basically a bastardization of what Orwell said about good writing - so you can get the conversation going and frame it the right way and make sure people aren't lost. And then you let the candidates illuminate the issues themselves.
John Dickerson
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To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.
John James Audubon
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I love to be directed. They can trust me and go.
Jeff Goldblum
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A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.
Steven Pinker
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We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.
Tom Perez
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I once bought a $150,000 car just because my friends told me to. Not because I wanted it. Because they told me to.
Rolando McClain
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When I was a student and rushing to finish a project, my gut instinct was usually to keep adding all kinds of features. It's a way of papering over the fact that you haven't quite nailed your concept yet.
Mike Krieger
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Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.
Milton Glaser
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It's funny: when I go to a school and speak, and when they hear the back story about me, they want to go read the book.
Jay Asher
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As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it.
Jonathan Stroud
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Most people think of leaders as being these outgoing, very visible, and charismatic people, which I find to be a very narrow perception. The key challenge for managers today is to get beyond the surface of your colleagues. You might just find that you have introverts embedded within your organization who are natural-born leaders.
Douglas Conant
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