James Meredith Quotes
My momma was slick as greased lightning. She knew how to get anybody and everybody to do whatever she wanted 'em to do.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.
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I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favorite. I'm pretty sure I had every piece of merchandise that involved Lizzie. And I loved 'That's So Raven.'
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There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.
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One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
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So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.
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When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.
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The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.
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We create monsters and then we can't control them.
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Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.
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I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.
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My momma was slick as greased lightning. She knew how to get anybody and everybody to do whatever she wanted 'em to do.
