Florynce Kennedy Quotes
Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.
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Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours.
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My only plan every day is to get up and go to work, work hard and come back home. And whatever else needs to happen in my life will come in its own time.
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I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in Camp David in 1998 - Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do.
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Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.
