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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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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The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.
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As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.
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There's still something so pure and heartfelt and emotional and genuine about a bouquet of flowers that, even with all the advances of technology and the millions of ways we have to communicate with each other, flowers are still relevant in my opinion.
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent.
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I don't know anybody who walks through life all the time in the doldrums, constantly serious and morose. But that's become what we generalize as drama.
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I think publicly declaring that mistakes are a part of how we grow and how we heal is absolutely necessary.
