Jane Elliott Quotes
This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.
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Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.
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Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going to let no man put me under.
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I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.
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I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
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This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are.
