Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

Meghan O'Rourke

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My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse.

Jim Messina

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I'm a very cultural person, and Canada is a very cultural place.

Tory Lanez

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When I'm playing, I'm never through. It's unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it. That's where the high comes in.

Miles Davis

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You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it.

Joseph Wambaugh

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Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.

Chellie Pingree

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Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?'

Claire Cameron

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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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Sexual orientation, color, background - that's what I want people to take away: Anyone can be anything.

Ashley Thomas

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I'm learning that if you put yourself out there and make fun of yourself first, it really does work. People can't really make fun of you.

Nikki Glaser

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I never take for granted how lucky I am to be an American and what a privilege it is to spend each day at a nonprofit dedicated to helping the next generation of girls achieve their dreams. My journey, as the daughter of refugees, shows what refugees and the children of refugees can create for all Americans.

Reshma Saujani

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Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.

Mariah Carey

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In 2016, let us all join the Rising, and the only final message is this very clear: Up the Rebels. Up a sovereign and independent Irish republic.

Martin McGuinness

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