Richard Attias Quotes

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.

Richard Attias

Recitation: by Male by Female

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WomenFutureBelieveKeyAfricaOut

As I got older, I realised that people saw me as other things - sometimes Korean, sometimes Japanese, sometimes just Asian. When my family moved to a more affluent white neighbourhood, I started to see myself as 'other', this amorphous category. I didn't even know what 'not other' was, but I knew I wasn't it; I wasn't what was normal.

Jenny Zhang

FamilyMyselfPeopleMeWhiteKnow

Believe me, I'm not going to try to get into testing.

John Engler

MeBelieveTryTestingGoingGet

Every writer is an outsider.

Andrew Sean Greer

OutsiderWriterEvery

I know that millions of Americans from all walks of life agree with me that leadership does not mean putting the ear to the ground to follow public opinion, but to have the vision of what is necessary and the courage to make it possible.

Shirley Chisholm

LifeLeadershipCourageVisionMe

My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.

Tori Amos

MeProblemLandEarsJustSucker

I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!

Tracy Chapman

TogetherDeathWeatherQuestionsSee

As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and I don't think I'm alone - genres are all about boundary drawing, and the YA genre is, in a lot of ways, about carving out boundaries around adolescence, a space for teenagers to do teenage things.

Robin Wasserman

CharacterAloneTimeSpaceThink

What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.

Rodney Dangerfield

DogPetBoneGotFavoriteArm

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

Josephine de La Baume

MusicGreatStyleRomanticThink

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

Clarence Thomas

AtlasAyn RandReallyTendPartial

Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso.

Clark Gable

WomanStrangeWaySheEverything

I'm a shabby dresser.

Chuck Feeney

ShabbyDresser

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