Alice Dreger Quotes

I think it is fine to have sports divided into men's and women's, just as it is fine to say a fifteen-year-old is incapable of consenting to sex. But we should recognize these are social distinctions based on biology, and not categories foisted upon us by nature.

Alice Dreger

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You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

Jennifer Lopez

ChangeCharacterWalkImaginationMe

I don't owe any explanations for anybody I'm fighting.

Andre Ward

FightingOweAnybodyAny

You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.

Melissa Manchester

LiveYouFindKnowSingerWhere

Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S.

John Olver

ClearlyDemocraticCannotUnified

Everybody wants to be in the next Marvel movie.

Robert Kazinsky

NextMarvelEverybodyWantsMovie

Most elite big men are high maintenance.

Jeff Van Gundy

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There's a general understanding amongst, I think, most people in this country that whether or not you have a preexisting condition, it's not your fault, and you shouldn't be discriminated against in healthcare policy.

Steve Scalise

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I'm drawn to that period, the '50s.

Tony Shalhoub

PeriodDrawn

Not being white has never prevented me from enjoying Luke Skywalker or Han Solo. These are heroes of mine.

Mike Colter

MeWhiteNeverHeroesSoloMine

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

Dinah Shore

FatherGirlBestMoneyMeAdvice

I get interested in the various ways that music is being done in the culture, and some of it I like thoroughly enough to want to learn about it. The way I have been successful at doing that is to become part of it.

Chick Corea

MusicCultureLearnDoingEnough

The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.

Brendan I. Koerner

FatherGovernmentAmericaAttention

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