Carolyn Custis James Quotes
Women's rights is an important and challenging question for us to be asking. It focuses attention on a global issue that in the wake of the 2016 presidential election reached a fever pitch and flooded city streets with pink-hatted protestors. The stakes are enormously high for women, but also for the church.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
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I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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A solution to stop gang banging: SNOW!!
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Black Lives Matter has become what black communities all over the world have needed it to become. At times, it is a hashtag; at other moments, it is a declaration, a cry of rage, a sharing of light. It has become a movement that is international, worldwide in its scope of liberation for black and oppressed people everywhere.
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I'm sure people see me as quiet and someone who keeps things to himself a little bit. I might be quiet, but there's a lot of fire inside me, and hopefully people see that sometimes.
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My parents have always had pretty high expectations, but they're very supportive.
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I still pinch myself that I had the career that I had.
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I think there is a danger there of being mean to people and humiliating people and embarrassing people just because it might get you ratings. It is a disturbing trend.
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I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them.
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K.C. and the Bay Area are opposites.
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For publicity purposes, everything gets simplified, and the fact that I wear glasses and am somewhat bookish makes me a geek. That's fine; there needs to be a shorthand, but there are important geek traits that I don't really share.
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I've been pretty lucky. Every single thing I've done has meant so much to me and has been like a stepping stone to something different.
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There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
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I'm not a representative of blackness, and I'm not a healer.
Colson Whitehead -
Women's rights is an important and challenging question for us to be asking. It focuses attention on a global issue that in the wake of the 2016 presidential election reached a fever pitch and flooded city streets with pink-hatted protestors. The stakes are enormously high for women, but also for the church.
