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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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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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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For one person, Haydn is most exciting. Or Bach is the most exciting. For another, it's Carter or Strauss. For me - and for any musician - all of the music is exciting. And if you don't approach it with excitement, we can't be musicians.
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I can't wait to be able to drive, but it's hard. Good driving doesn't really run in my family genes. My mother is possibly the worst driver ever.
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To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.
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When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.
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There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.
