Safak Pavey Quotes
At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
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My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.
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I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
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Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.
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In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
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What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.
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In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show.
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Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.
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I think, a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.
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A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the Nonviolent Communication Organization. He has all these books about how we can use our language nonviolently to help create peace. He's using a lot of Buddhism too, but he's helping me to think about language.
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If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.
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At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.
