Patrisse Cullors Quotes
I think publicly declaring that mistakes are a part of how we grow and how we heal is absolutely necessary.
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I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.
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There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
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If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.
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I work as if I were going to be the next person to need a respirator. I share in the benefits I bestow on others, and my work has enriched my life.
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I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.
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To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called 'a state of middle temperament.' Our politics need that middle temperament as well.
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Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.
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Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
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My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.
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I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.
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I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.
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My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
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Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
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Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!
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Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. "Ari" appears on the edge of this book a couple of times - but on the edge, she's never in it, even if she's a determining force from the outside. Everybody in the first book was basically made up, if never from scratch.
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I've always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I'd still be drawing the same pictures... should I have picked trumpet or accordion or guitar, whatever it may be. The sounds in my head are still the same.
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I think publicly declaring that mistakes are a part of how we grow and how we heal is absolutely necessary.
