Chirlane McCray Quotes

Telling my story has not been easy for me. I've had to dredge up memories I would have rather forgotten. The lonely, anxiety-ridden months I avoided others, attempting to hide from interrogations about my social life.

Chirlane McCray

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• I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
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• As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people are mistaken about each others' experiences.

  

  Edith Stein
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• Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

  

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• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
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• Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

  

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• But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

  

  Olivier Martinez
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• Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

  

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• I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

  

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• Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  

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• For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Me
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• I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.

  

  Victoria Jackson
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• It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
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• I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

  

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• Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.

  

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• But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men! Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?

  

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• I have the luxury of getting up quite late, so I hardly ever set an alarm clock.

  

  Ben Schott
  • Up

• I really thought, with my background growing up, and my service, and all that, I thought it would be enough for the presidency. But... It sure was enough when I ran for Congress.

  

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• What is essential - the one thing that could stop us being coarsened to other lives - is that we feel a great, living wave of animal life all around us, covering the earth.

  

  John Burnside
  • Life
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• When I was a child, my society lifted me up - though education primarily, as well as through other kinds of cultural stimulation. It wasn't just my parents or my religious community. The entire society lifted me up to the bottom rung of the ladder. Then they said, "Girl, it's up to you whether or not you climb." I don't have a problem with that. I think that is the best way to go about living.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
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• Telling my story has not been easy for me. I've had to dredge up memories I would have rather forgotten. The lonely, anxiety-ridden months I avoided others, attempting to hide from interrogations about my social life.

  

  Chirlane McCray
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