Mavis Staples Quotes
If you don't get out among the people, how are you going to know what they need to hear about?
Quotes to Explore
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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I have a great office.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Home is where your rump rests.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.
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I think I'm representing a new generation of Latinos - bilingual, bicultural people.
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I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.
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The quarterback, you can play with a lot of big injuries. You get a little injury like an index finger or a thumb that most people can play with, sometimes you can't. I've stayed away from some of those.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse. And I've suspected that this optimism blinds many in Silicon Valley to the real struggles in other parts of the country. So I decided to move home to Ohio.
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If you don't get out among the people, how are you going to know what they need to hear about?
