Pearl Cleage Quotes
When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
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Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.
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The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.
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I am a Westerner of Westerners!
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I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.
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I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
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Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.
