Ward Churchill Quotes

And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?

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• It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Up
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• The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Work
  • You
  • Events

• China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Good
  • Opportunity
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• The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

  

  Sam Harris
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• Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

  

  Ian Thorpe
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• I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

  

  Nat Wolff
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• When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

  

  Dan Savage
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• Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
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• I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• Some things have to be believed to be seen.

  

  Ralph Hodgson
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• When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.

  

  Valerie June
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• When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.

  

  Karine Vanasse
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• There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
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• Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

  

  Dada Vaswani
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• A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
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• Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
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• If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

  

  Jim Rohn
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• When people say, 'Hey, wanna come to our house for dinner?' I say, 'Yeah, what should I bring?' They say, 'How about the dessert?' I just don't skimp on the dessert. I make it the yummy way it should be made, and then I just don't eat the whole pan.

  

  Summer Sanders
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• Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.

  

  John Travolta
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• I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just lazy journalism, but people start to accept it. If people spent an hour in my car driving around London and listening to the stuff I listen to, they'd hear some interesting stuff.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
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• Sometimes falling in love may look like pure madness to those not experiencing it but that's only because they're not involved. Just because other people don't understand your feelings doesn't mean they're not real or they're not important. You have to trust yourself. Feel what you feel and don't worry about anyone else. Love is about you and your significant other, remember that.

  

  Willa Cather
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• And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?

  

  Ward Churchill
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