Phoebe Robinson Quotes
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There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.
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We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.
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When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched. That was something I not only felt, but I participated in.
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
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Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
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There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.
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We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
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When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.
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I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.
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I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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Nothing is as sad as seeing a person who used to have power have none.
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Maintaining control indefinitely over millions of Palestinians will inevitably lead to a demographic nightmare and cannot be sustained if Israel is to remain true to its founding principles.
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I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.
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I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.
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It's been a long time since I've been me.
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I could scarcely bear to look at her eyes. They promised such intimacies.
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My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
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After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.
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Happiness is a good vibe for peace.
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No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.
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I think that comfort is underrated in a lot of ways.
