Christina Hoff Sommers Quotes

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

Christina Hoff Sommers

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My own back yard, and my mom and dad's back yard, is where I learned about tomatoes and weeds and daily maintenance.

John Bytheway

DailyMomBackMaintenanceMy Own

I have a profound affection for Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism's particular ways of meditating.

John McLaughlin

AffectionProfoundZenWaysBuddhism

We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.

Sonny Perdue

WorkLiveGovernmentBossChanceUs

When people like your music because it has vulnerable honesty, and you're able to comfortably admit to flaws and imperfections, then that's the most liberating thing about being an artist.

Tove Lo

MusicHonestyPeopleYouArtist

America was a thing I saw on TV - that wasn't a real world. That wasn't within my realm of dreaming.

Trevor Noah

WorldAmericaRealWithinDreaming

Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.

Mitch Kapor

CivilizationSeenHackersThreaten

I get sent a lot of scripts where you're just the mom.

Winona Ryder

MomYouWhereGetJustSent

I had this scholarship, two pairs of tight jeans, and a couple of hundred extra dollars, and I showed up in Oregon and went to school there.

Punit Renjen

SchoolScholarshipTwoJeansUp

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'

Shaquille O'Neal

GreatMenGreatnessBornAchieve

I don't judge. Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

Twyla Tharp

BusinessJudgeJudgmentExisting

The idea that a story has to be 'exceptional' in order to be worth telling is curious to me. What if we looked at every single person's story as a site of possibly infinite meaning? What if we came to believe that there isn't hubris or narcissism in thinking your story might be worth sharing - only a sense of curiosity and offering?

Leslie Jamison

CuriousMeCuriosityBelieveStory

The fact that I could sing in a way that might not be right for RADA but is right for me was a brand-new concept.

Lia Ices

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