Ella Baker Quotes
During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period.
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
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Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
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Because of the relationship between programmed cell death and human disease, the identification of the genes and proteins that function in the process of programmed cell death has provided new targets for possible intervention in a broad diversity of disorders.
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
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A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.
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There is no such thing as 'safe' Socialism. If it's safe, it's not Socialism. And if it's Socialism, it's not safe. The signposts of Socialism point downhill to less freedom, less prosperity, downhill to more muddle, more failure. If we follow them to their destination, they will lead this nation into bankruptcy.
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Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.
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There was a period when I really had to ask myself, 'What does acting mean to me?' I'm not someone who's content being famous, with that whole lifestyle. I had to realize I could find a balance between what I like to do and what people think you're 'supposed' to do as an actress.
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The ability to have influence and create change and drive the strategy of an organization is really what excites me.
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Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness, but any particular person is not a necessary part of our being.
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During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period.
