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“You can't worry too much about profile; otherwise, you become a different kind of actor, and that's not the kind of actor I want to be.”
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“It's been in the back of my head for five or six years, but more on the local level to get involved and try to create a better environment for my children and grandchildren.”
Source : "Shutdown Corner interview: Congressman-elect Jon Runyan". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. November 05, 2010.
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“You [can] become part of someone else's narrative. Every once in a while I would get people asking me questions like, "If your husband is a Muslim, then why haven't you converted to Islam?" Interestingly enough, almost every person who asked me that was a Sunni, and it was their not-so-subtle way of implying that my Shiite husband was a bad Muslim for letting his infidel wife run around unconverted.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.”
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“As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.”
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“The concept of being a locavore, or one who chooses whenever possible to incorporate locally grown or locally produced food into one's nutrition plan, is of great importance”
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“I thought you might have some advice to give on how to be insensitive.”
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“The end point of leadership is not just the position of power we reach, but the continual change and deepening we experience that makes a difference in our lives, our work, our world. Our leadership journeys are only at midpoint when we have achieved a position of power.”
Source : Janet O. Hagberg (2002). “Real Power: Stages of Personal Power in Organizations, Third Edition”, p.273, Sheffield Publishing