Marley Dias Quotes
It's important to read books and see people who look like you. It helps you know that you are not the only one or the weird one because you're a black girl and you are not seeing anyone who looks like you in these books.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.
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I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.
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It's important to read books and see people who look like you. It helps you know that you are not the only one or the weird one because you're a black girl and you are not seeing anyone who looks like you in these books.
