Chief Joseph Quotes
We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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People always ask me, 'Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?' Like everyone has to be on one team. If you're a Selena Gomez fan, you can't be a Victoria Justice fan. We're both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
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Let us have peace.
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The light would reach us more quickly in the morning and fade more slowly at night if the whole earth were divided into vast flower beds that called forth the light at dawn and clutched it longer at nightfall. Nature instituted summer for flowers long before man took summer over for his own uses.
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This is one of the hardest industries to be married.
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I always felt really lucky that I only lost my legs, because it could've been so much worse.
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We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
