Ella Baker Quotes

I believe, the [Gunnar] Myrdal study had been made, and if we hadn't had anything else to raise questions, this in itself would have been something to provoke thought in the direction of the value of accommodating leadership.

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• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

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• To be is to do.

  

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• We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

  

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• I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.

  

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• The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.

  

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• You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

  

  Maika Monroe
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• I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
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• I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

  

  Jack Carroll
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• Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Technology
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• The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.

  

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• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  

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• They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

  

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• If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

  

  Ralph Steadman
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• The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
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• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.

  

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• I've always been really good at staying busy. Even while I'm working, I'm looking at what the next thing is.

  

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• Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• Because my parents took a risk on me not knowing a thing about me.They believed that in everyone there is potential - that by believing in someone, loving them, nurturing them, you can bring out that potential.

  

  Michael Gove
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• Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

  

  Iggy Pop
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• Concerning the Sugar Pine: The wood is deliciously fragrant, and fine in grain and texture; it is of a rich cream-yellow, as if formed of condensed sunbeams.

  

  John Muir

• I believe, the [Gunnar] Myrdal study had been made, and if we hadn't had anything else to raise questions, this in itself would have been something to provoke thought in the direction of the value of accommodating leadership.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Believe
  • Value
  • Study