Dolores Huerta Quotes
It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was 'dragon lady' or something like it.
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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
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Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.
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Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'
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The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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I'm a very proud actor.
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My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
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What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately.
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Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
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I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.
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Clearly, healthcare is a very important sector.
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I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.
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Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.
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Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it's all in my mind.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice.
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You cannot buy your way to share of voice today; you cannot buy attention anymore.
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It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was 'dragon lady' or something like it.
