Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
I feel like, as a person of color, I've always been kind of doing the work against the tide.
Jacqueline Woodson
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
Lady Gaga
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
Ice Cube
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
J. D. Salinger
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
Patricia Highsmith
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
Rachael Harris
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
Nargis Fakhri
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
Dan Savage
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
T. B. Joshua
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
Eartha Kitt
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
Rand Paul
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
J. D. Salinger
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
Wayne Swan
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Bumble is all about community and safe, empowered connections, and the Hive represents a natural extension of our brand and our values. We love that we've given people an opportunity to connect digitally, and the Hive allows us and our users to take that to the next level in a space where connections can come to life in person.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.
Alastair Campbell
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Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attentive to the way their white counterparts see themselves in relation to people of color if they want to survive and even thrive.
James A. Forbes
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An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.
Francois Hollande
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I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year.
Donald Hall
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I feel like, as a person of color, I've always been kind of doing the work against the tide.
Jacqueline Woodson
