Marla Gibbs Quotes
Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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I was on stage with Cyndi Lauper, and my trousers split. It seemed like she was going to sing for ever.
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President Trump proclaimed 'America First' from the inauguration stage. As an American Jew and daughter of immigrants, that slogan makes me shiver.
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I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
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Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries.
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
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Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.
