Patrisse Cullors Quotes
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Rod always dresses for dinner - even if I just want to wear tracksuit bottoms, he dresses up.
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I grew up at the beach and I was always involved in beach clean-ups and caring for my environment.
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My kids are obviously growing up very privileged, but I want them to have a servant's heart. We do community service as a family, and I also call them out on things like getting impatient when they stand in line - because they hardly ever have to. But that's just the reality of what they were born into.
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That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
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My frustration has always been that I'm a Christian, but I don't buy into, never have bought into, the belief that Jesus and God are these men who just dictate that this is how you have to live your life or you are going to burn in hell.
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We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.
