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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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.
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It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies.
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Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.
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I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.
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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.
