Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes
There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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You love for a quarterback to sometimes make the decision as the rush is coming and make the decision as the play, as opposed to where that computer is hitting it fast and he's knowing where to go with the ball at the right time.
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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
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Every single one of us already has everything we need to be the happiest person on earth; it's simply up to us to remember that in every moment.
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I love stretching in the morning. It's the first thing I do when I wake up because getting a good back-crack is so extremely satiating. I feel taller when I finally stand.
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In general, between an actor and a character, there needs to be a falling in love, if you will - which I'm saying in quotes.
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I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around this world you goSpinning through the lives of the people you knowWe all slow down.
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There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.
