Sacheen Littlefeather Quotes
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Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.
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I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
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Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
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I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.
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Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.
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From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.
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I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!
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I'm retired from the daredevil business.
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I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.
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Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.
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When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.
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Loss means losing what was we want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
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Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.
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I always felt that what is scary is actually hearing someone tell you what they think they see. That sense of invisibility makes things a lot scarier, since your imagination tends to fill in the gaps.
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Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.
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As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they're iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don't think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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Many people, including many important and well-respected scientists, just don't want there to be anything beyond nature. They don't want a supernatural being to affect nature.
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I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.
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A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.
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I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.
