#terms

Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it. ↗

— Mercedes Ruehl

#absolute necessity #also #book #called #come

I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#better #card #change #credit #credit card

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#bad #body #contact #european #five

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#being #doing #embraced #i #like

In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#i #i can #limited #real-world #terms

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#cia #come #deal #doing #great

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#been #effort #espionage #had #human

I think from here on it's up to me to prove that I'm growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I've had so far. ↗

— Shiri Appleby

#far #gave #growing #growing up #had

Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#buddhists #describe #god #much #nirvana

I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make. ↗

— Christian Bale

#always #any #anything #because #confuse