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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Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.
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I don't think a powerful man would be interesting unless he'd be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!
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Hillary Clinton does very well in Pennsylvania generally. I think she connects with the working white people and all kinds of people that normally would have a problem with the modern Democratic Party.
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There's a lot of America that's Christian. I would not describe us, though, on the whole, as a Christian nation.
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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?
