Ella Baker Quotes
In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
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Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.
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I'm good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O'Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.
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For as long as I can remember, I've just loved Chanel.
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In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.
