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White Southerners created an entire cosmetics industry equating beauty with whiteness and trained a string of winning Miss Americas who embodied their racial ideal in a national representative. ”
There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to change things. ”
In most cultures, men represent tradition and women represent change and future. Women, because of their ability to give birth, are more connected to future. Men tend to keep the status quo. ”
I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions. ”
As governor, my chief responsibility is to keep our state and people safe, which is why I have decided to oppose Arkansas being used as a relocation center for Syrian refugees. ”
My responsibility is to speak out on my own convictions. ”
We have a democracy of elections to elections. After winning an election, the parties become brazen and arrogant. They would do all wrong things and if you question them, they would say - why don't you change the government next time? But that would be five years later. What do I do right now? I am suffering right now. ”
We, alone, can't change the country. We should do it together. ”
The goal here is to triple the lifespan of human beings. We can't have triple the natural resources, so we need to be more efficient. ”
There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess where I am in that. ”