Io Tillett Wright Quotes

#1. Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

Juan Cole

#2. When you get older you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.

Lori Lansens

#3. Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

Brett Lee

#4. At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.

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#5. We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

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#6. He read political science, mass media communications, finance, and international conflict resolution,

David Lagercrantz

#7. Familiarity is the gateway drug to empathy.

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#8. For me, photography is not just about exposing film, it's about exposing the viewer to something new, a place they haven't gone before, but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of.

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#9. It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.

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#10. All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

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#11. Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#12. Christian spirituality does not rest on mysticism; it rests in a Mediator.

Kevin DeYoung

#13. We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story.

Marcus Samuelsson

#14. I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that ... Integrating that bus wouldn't mean more equality. Even when there was segregation, there was plenty of integration in the South, but it was for the benefit and convenience of the white person, not us.

Rosa Parks

#15. 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.

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#16. Loyalty binds me,

Jeff Wheeler

#17. Not everyone can be Gandhi, but each of us has the power to make sure our own lives count - and it's those millions of lives that will ultimately build a better world.

Jeffrey Skoll

#18. I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there was a disconnect between people who are gay or have gay friends and are gay-friendly, and people who think they don't know any gay people.

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#19. He's such a social guy - and so popular around here - that sometimes I wonder where he got it from. In many ways he's the exact opposite of me. He likes to let a lot of people in; I like to keep most people out.

Tahereh Mafi

#20. I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.

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#21. A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

Mary Renault

#22. Leaders don't need a path. They make one.

Tim Fargo