Ella Baker Quotes
When I came out of the Depression, I came out of it with a different point of view as to what constituted success. And that was even just even personal success.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.
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I love pubs and I love pub culture.
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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The President can pardon us again... and again and again, but... picketing will continue, and sooner or later, he will have to do something about it.
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When I came out of the Depression, I came out of it with a different point of view as to what constituted success. And that was even just even personal success.
