Dennis Banks Quotes
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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I just want to do my job.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I want to take a close look at the SBA to see what works, what doesn't, what is duplicative, and what isn't even being utilized. We'll focus on what they do well and strengthen those areas.
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.
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Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.
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Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my art for my life. I’ve always said dance is the breath made visible. That covers about everything because once you stop breathing and the breath is no longer visible, you stop moving.
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I have to be fully committed to do a project nowadays, because if I say yes to something, it means the whole family are going to have to move for the job. It's a lot of upheaval. So, it has to be really worth it. Otherwise, I'd just as well not bother.
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Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.
