Roxane Gay Quotes

I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing.

Roxane Gay

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When I was at AOL, I was always on the web media side while much of the company was focused on the ISP business. We focused on big categories like celebrities and sports, and we created brands around that category like AOL Celebrities, AOL Movies and Fanhouse.

Jim Bankoff

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If you look at other countries, you'll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, and science. It's something to do with the kind of culture we have in the English-speaking world about what's appropriate for each of the two sexes.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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Companies that banked their future on broadband - most of them are not very successful.

Jerry Yang

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I've gone through terrible periods of depression. But, at the core of my being, there's a strange, out-of-place optimist. Despite what I'm feeling, I'm always able to get up and do my job. Which means the world to me.

Jenny Lewis

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Do your best to spread positive messages.

Stephanie McMahon

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I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

Robert Benton

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I logged into my bank accounts, and they were all seized, all frozen. So that was a pretty clear indication that I was in big trouble.

Molly Bloom

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Though I have tremendous support from lots of people, there are so many others waiting to tear me down.

Misty Copeland

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First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.

Lucinda Williams

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The really cool thing about when you're playing a comic book character is that no one knows what he sounds like.

Josh McDermitt

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Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways it's the impact of living in a digital environment, and in other ways it's just really what happens when you stop leaning so forward to the millennium and you finally arrive there.

Douglas Rushkoff

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My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out.

Chris Brown

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