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As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female. ↗

— Geena Davis

#being #causes #even #fact #female

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#always #been #customers #developers #important

I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before. ↗

— Geena Davis

#actually #animated #become #been #before

We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do. ↗

— Geena Davis

#female #female characters #half #kids #planet

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films. ↗

— Geena Davis

#believe #choices #current #daughter #decades

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#also #children #educate #educated #left

We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#celebrating #cultural #cultural diversity #diversity #increasingly

We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#associate #conditions #delayed #diseases #earlier

Well they're very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There's concern about the status of asylum seekers in Malaysia generally, but there's concern about the status of the 800 to be sent. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#asylum #australia #concern #concerns #generally

When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#approach #australian #challenges #government #how