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• If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and gay men's culture. It's all about how you have to look a certain way, or else you're worthless... For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.

  Margaret Cho

  Integrity, Self Esteem, Gay

  "Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O". TV Special, June 13, 2002.

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• The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.

  Michael Dukakis

  Congratulations, Long, People

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• So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Children, Father, Law

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• Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as a Third World city. The Tattooed Soldier is a riveting book that manages to be at once politically informed and at the same time a psychologically astute study of that most elemental of stories: revenge.

  Stuart Dybek

  Revenge, Book, Cities

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• Yeah. A real date. Something official. You. Me. Tonight. We're long overdue.

  Sophie Jordan

  Real, Long, Tonight

  Sophie Jordan (2011). “Firelight”, p.150, Oxford University Press - Children

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• From the prophets' dreams of the time when nations would beat their swords into plowshares to today's aspirations of a nuclear-weapons-free world, we have sought to avoid armed conflict and not yield to despair in the search for universal peace. The nuclear threats from Iran, North Korea, and terrorists can only be overcome through international cooperation. We call upon Congressional leaders and those worldwide to join together to ensure the fulfillment of these long-overdue initiatives and the achievement of a safer future without nuclear weapons.

  David Saperstein

  Dream, Religious, Yield

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• The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

  Arthur Miller

  Opportunity, Class, Long

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.297, Penguin

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• Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read...This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future.

  Daniel Gordis

  Book, Past, Israel

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• The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

  Susie Orbach

  Political, Body, Fit

  "Ad men today are wrong on body size" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.

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• There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.

  Natalie Dormer

  Ethnicity, Uprising, Long

  Source: www.elle.com

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• This is also evident in Europe, not the dependence on oil and gas, but the fact that structural reforms are long overdue, and I think that the leading economies are very pragmatic and efficient in addressing the issues facing the European economy. That is why we keep approximately 40 percent of our gold and foreign currency reserves in euros.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Europe, Oil

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Everybody just needs to realize that when you write something you're just in one mood. I was told I needed to write it and it was overdue; I don't even remember what day it was.

  Bradford Cox

  Writing, Needs, Remember

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Today is just to the beginning of a long and overdue national discussion on how to protect ourselves from modern cyber crime and evolving national security threats and how to develop the cyber offense strategies necessary to gain a critical security edge in the 21st century. We need the edge, and ideally, a big one.

  Donald Trump

  Long, Needs, Today

  Source: time.com

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• I feel like I'm long overdue for a "one for me" movie, so I've got two low-budget indy personal things I'm working on.

  Greg Mottola

  Two, Long, Lows

  Source: collider.com

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• Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.

  Bill Vaughan

  Law, Would Be, Today

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• Money was invented as a lubricant for the barter system, but we're way overdue for a lube and oil change.

  Daniel N. Robinson

  Oil, Way, Oil Change

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• It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.

  Gareth Roberts

  Fun, Book, Thinking

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• To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write approval here, For these pre-eminent myself I think, As long as you don't overdue the pink.

  Ruth Pitter

  Sweet, Flower, Writing

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• Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.

  J. K. Rowling

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• Be ruthless about protecting writing days.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Mushrooms, Ruthless

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• Be ruthless about protecting writing days....althoug h writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Jobs, Writing, Fighting

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• I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It's overdue. That's where you see the demonization of people who stand on their beliefs.

  Michele Bachmann

  Religious, People, Belief

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• The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy.

  Jerry Brown

  Struggle, Political, Cost

  "Governor Brown, Senate President pro Tempore and Assembly Speaker Support Raising California’s Minimum Wage". www.gov.ca.gov. September 11, 2013.

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• Perhaps you went to bed last night thinking about the overdue bills, the lack of finances, the problematic people and situations you have to face. This morning you woke up. Did you give thanks? If you didn't, it is probably because you forgot that when praise goes up, the blessings come down. That should be enough to inspire you to be thankful.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Morning, Blessing, Night

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from May 07, 2016

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• Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.

  J. K. Rowling

  Jobs, Believe, Book

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