iO Tillett Wright Quotes

Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.

iO Tillett Wright

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We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.

Jim Lovell

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People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.

Joe Williams

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Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

Robert South

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I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption.

Steve Wynn

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Podcasting is not really that different from streaming music, which we've done for quite a long time. Having a traditional podcast that people subscribe to - the hype is ahead of the quality. Podcasting is essentially a download, and you run into copyright issues. What you're left with currently is podcast talk radio.

Chris DeWolfe

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I find that women... deal with immigration differently. And I'm interested in that.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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I'm the type of player that doesn't like to play on full stomach.

Ali Krieger

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I think we're going to have auxiliary hard drives to offload our memories.

Rick Smolan

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I ask everyone in Russia to pray for me, beginning with the bishops, whose whole life is a single prayer. I ask prayers also of those who humbly do not believe in the efficacy of their prayers, as well as of those who do not believe in prayer at all and even consider it useless.

Nikolai Gogol

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It was a very well-rounded childhood with lots of different opportunities. My mom will say she set out to overstimulate me - surround me with way too many things and let me pick. As a result, I've always been a multitasker; I've always liked a lot of variety.

Marissa Mayer

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You don't have to be a Kerli fan to be a Moon Child, and you don't have to be a Moon Child to be a Kerli fan. You just have to make the best of what you have and have compassion for yourself and for others always.

Kerli

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I've always admired lawyers who use their power to effect social change, and Thurgood Marshall was always a childhood hero of mine.

Kenneth Frazier

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