Ella Baker Quotes
In your short stay in Atlanta, I'm sure you saw that there was great competition between Martin's [Luther King] father and John Wesley Dobbs in terms of family status. You know, the bragging about whose child got a master's degree first and whose child, maybe, was the first Ph.D. Out of a background like that, the business of becoming a chairman of an important movement or a movement that symbolizes a certain amount of prestige is something you don't resist easily.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.
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I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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I'm really just a normal person.
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The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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I don't have a TV or watch movies. I don't like to be broadcast to, I want to participate.
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Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship.
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I don't even think I'm that good at rapping, but I think what makes a great rapper - what CAN make a great rapper - is someone who wants to be better.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.
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In your short stay in Atlanta, I'm sure you saw that there was great competition between Martin's [Luther King] father and John Wesley Dobbs in terms of family status. You know, the bragging about whose child got a master's degree first and whose child, maybe, was the first Ph.D. Out of a background like that, the business of becoming a chairman of an important movement or a movement that symbolizes a certain amount of prestige is something you don't resist easily.
