Bozoma Saint John Quotes
At 13, I learned what it meant to walk into a room and not care what everybody thinks of you.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
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The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.
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The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
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Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.
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Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
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I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
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'You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both'
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His wife 'ruled the roost,' and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.
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scorn relations with the imperialist Government of the United States, a Government of genocide and decadence..We have supported, we are supporting and we shall sup port revolutionary movements in Latin America...We feel very well outside the O.A.S., in fact better than inside. The O.A.S. is an organization that is bound to disappear.
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When I was a little baby, I remember that one moment of calm peace, and three minutes after that, it was on.
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Is 'I hope you all die a painful death' too strong?
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I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!
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The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.
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Although there exist in the world today some microbes of the soul, such as discrimination and aggression, science was and still is the core of progress for humanity and the continuity of civilization.
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A lot of us have been raised with the Bible and with movies from Hollywood to believe that God shouts down from the heavens or appears in a burning bush. It's always so dramatic and kind of scary. So that's what we all expect when we're asking God for some answers.
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Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.
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Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
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At 13, I learned what it meant to walk into a room and not care what everybody thinks of you.
