Marley Dias Quotes

Most girls spend most of their time at school. If real change comes from hearing our voices, it has to start in school, but school is a place where black girls tend to experience microaggressions. Microaggressions are not always obvious, ugly, or terrible things, but they make you feel as though your voice does not matter.

Marley Dias

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ChangeTimeExperienceSchoolUgly

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

Michael Johns

HistoryTyrannySeventyYearsModern

In every election cycle that I can recall, there comes a moment - or a few - where charges of elitism and claims of commonness are wielded by presidential candidates like a sword and shield: 'Vote for me 'cause I'm one of you. It's the other guy who's out of touch.'

John Ridley

MomentMeYouI CanElectionSword

Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.

Simon Mainwaring

WorldGreedEmployeesWallStreet

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

Rowan Williams

OpportunityRichTraditionRome

I've never been someone who is cast for having a lovely figure but for whatever qualities I could possibly bring to a role, so I'm still castable.

Miriam Margolyes

SomeoneNeverLovelyWhateverBring

I told my wife, 'One woman, lots of toys!'

Jason Momoa

WifeWomanToysLots

People have challenged me all my life, told me I wasn't fast enough, wasn't smart enough, but you know what? No one's ever outworked me. My definition of tired and most people's definition of tired are two totally different things.

Jon Runyan

LifeSmartTiredPeopleMeMy Life

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Dick Van Dyke

MeYoungSayTryHimDays

We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?

Cicely Tyson

SupportOthersOwnExpectOurHow

I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.

Alison Moyet

TimeWritingThreeDifficultKids

An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph.

Philippe Petit

ChallengeI AmIntellectualTriumph

I'm prone to hyperbole.

Ty Burrell

HyperboleProne

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