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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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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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people are unhappy and a lot people are anxious, it just feels like that's one view of the world. But you don't have to always focus on that view of the world.
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I've always been into 'fast-paced, don't bore 'em, keep it moving along, stick with the story.' You know: tell a story the way I want to hear a story. I find it more rewarding to write for kids, but I also find it a little easier, because you can just let loose a little bit more in terms of fantasy and stuff.
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In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.
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In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you're a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that's so lame.
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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.
