Elaine Sciolino Quotes

Massoumeh Ebtekar is the highest-ranking woman in Iran's government, a symbol of President Mohammed Khatami's promise to promote women into high-profile positions.

Elaine Sciolino

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Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

Jim Barksdale

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If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules. You've got omniscient narrators lecturing at times to the reader in first person. If you go back to the earliest novels, this is happening to a wild extent, like 'Tristram Shandy' or 'Don Quixote'.

Jennifer Egan

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The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially.

Ann Veneman

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You know, life is long. My shooting career is long.

Matt Emmons

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We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.

Stacy London

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I do love my avocados, which are great for the skin. I eat pretty healthfully.

Mary-Louise Parker

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My father brought me up to be a socialist.

Donovan

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When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.

Doug Liman

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I'm a huge walking oxymoron. People think they're going to get something that's a lot different from what they get.

Chris Zylka

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Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

Coretta Scott King

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If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.

Colin Kaepernick

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My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Woody Allen

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