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
  • You
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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
  • Respect

• 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
  • World
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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
  • Success
  • Like
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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
  • Hope
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• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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  • Spiritual
  • Islam

• 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
  • People
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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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• The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop. Investors have scant patience for the years of good governance - politically fraught fiscal restructuring, austerity and debt rescheduling - it takes to defuse a sovereign-debt crisis.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Good
  • Believe
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• The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
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  • Southern

• My brother and my dad always used to shave their hair, and I remember thinking, 'Why can't I do the same?'

  

  Alice Dellal
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• You are white - yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. That’s American. Sometimes perhaps you don’t want to be a part of me. Nor do I often want to be a part of you. But we are, that’s true! As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me - although you’re older - and white - and somewhat more free.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • American
  • True
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• Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.

  

  Mark Lawrenson
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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?

  

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