Jane Elliott Quotes
When you say to a person of colour, 'When I see you, I don't see you Black; I just see everybody the same' think about that. You don't have the right to say to a person, 'I do not see you as you are; I want to see you as I would be more comfortable seeing you.'
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence.
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I'm a very competitive person.
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I am an ordinary person.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.
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Not raising the debt ceiling does not trigger a default, because we've got enough money to service our debts. Default is when you can't service your debt.
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Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
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If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.
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In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.
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Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.
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When you say to a person of colour, 'When I see you, I don't see you Black; I just see everybody the same' think about that. You don't have the right to say to a person, 'I do not see you as you are; I want to see you as I would be more comfortable seeing you.'
