Aimee Mullins Quotes

The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.

Aimee Mullins

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FamilyNatureMotherMePerfectFar

We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.

Joe Slovo

OpinionOvercomingProcessPlace

While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.

Meg Rosoff

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I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.

Tom Selleck

InnovationThinkTelevisionAlways

Just follow the rules. Always have a designated driver. Don't be doing anything to make someone mad. And just walk away from the trouble.

Rob Gronkowski

WalkSomeoneDoingRulesMadFollow

Particularly over the last few decades, technological innovation has offered opportunities to bring people and nations together - but it has also created significant new challenges to law enforcement.

Loretta Lynch

InnovationTogetherPeopleLawNew

The answers to all a startup's challenges are out there. By setting up the right mechanisms for gathering feedback, the road to success can be a less bumpy ride.

Jay Samit

SuccessRideChallengesRoadRight

As a leader, you need to care deeply, deeply about your people while not worrying or really even caring about what they think about you. Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.

Dick Costolo

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We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

David Souter

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Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.

Christopher Knight

LifePositiveTodayArtWorldFeel

We keep a woman in prison for decade after decade at a cost of $60,000 a year, and then give them $200 when they hit the gates for release. And, adios. People have to get their IDs, Social Security cards. They have to get clothing, housing, apply for benefits and services, and it's impossible to do with 200 bucks.

Susan Burton

WomanPeopleImpossiblePrisonYear

Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive.

Peter Landesman

LifeLoveHurtAliveSometimesUs

What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.

Tyler Perry

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