"We surround ourselves with what is better or see other people as role models. You go, "If they can do this, so can I." That starts to trigger people, as well."
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"As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy."
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"All the perks, all the benefits and advantages you may get for the rank or position you hold, they aren’t meant for you. They are meant for the role you fill. And when you leave your role, which eventually you will, they will give the ceramic cup to the person who replaces you. Because you only ever deserved a Styrofoam cup."
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"You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you."
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"Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined."
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"The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional."
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"There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around."
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"Life is a movie, let love play its role."
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"The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you."
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"Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor."
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"Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence"
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"The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering."
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"I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces."
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"It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation."
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"The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today."
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"It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me."
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"I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can."
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"I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play."
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"The Epicureans denied that the gods had created the world and also denied that they played any role in it."
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"Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play."
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