Florynce Kennedy Quotes
Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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Wall Street has become a veritable casino.
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I've been a prima-dona. I was taken care of since I was 13. That's why I am the way I am today. I was spoiled, like a brat. I had anything I wanted. That's crazy to be that way all your life. Everybody's taking care of you, but manipulating you at the same time. Very few people have a life like that. Most people have to work like slaves their whole lives. I've never had a job in my life. What I know how to do is hurt big, tough men - in the street and off.
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I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure.
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Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
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It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
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Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.
