Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Quotes

While many Americans agree that 'the system is rigged' economically, few are aware of the ways in which racial inequality has been structured and embedded in our society. This is why candid, fact-based discussions about racial inequality are so desperately needed.

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.

Jennifer Carpenter

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My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced.

Jennifer Lawrence

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So many people subconsciously shy away from getting rich because they believe they'll be judged, they'll lose the people they love, they believe that desiring money is a bad thing, money is the root of all evil, etc.

Jen Sincero

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Modern life, especially with young children, so often seems like a mad rush... We so rarely take time to just do nothing - not look at our phones, not read the news.

Michael Finkel

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I think my gift lies in being a startup entrepreneur and creating environments and experiences.

Molly Bloom

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I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.

Michael Koryta

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Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues.

Luca Parmitano

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I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.

Jon Heder

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Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer or farther away, the temperature would be hotter or colder, eliminating liquid water, an essential ingredient for our survival.

Brian Greene

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We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want.

Arash Ferdowsi

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You don't go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you're building a golf course.

Arnold Palmer

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I said if I ever conducted, I would always give myself the best chance to succeed - though sometimes, despite everything, you still fail.

Pierre Boulez

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