Ella Baker Quotes
The anniversary of the Montgomery boycott was being celebrated, and the handbill that was out, and all whatever literature that was circulated, didn't say practically anything about movement or what the movement stood for, what it had done, or anything, but was simply adulation of the leader, you know, [Martin Luther] King.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
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As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
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The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
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A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
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Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can't make the right sort of settlement, so I'm aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.
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Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.
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The anniversary of the Montgomery boycott was being celebrated, and the handbill that was out, and all whatever literature that was circulated, didn't say practically anything about movement or what the movement stood for, what it had done, or anything, but was simply adulation of the leader, you know, [Martin Luther] King.
