Mavis Staples Quotes
Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You'll always have your family.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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I'm a very secretive person.
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The day when we plan seriously to start living either never comes or it comes too late.
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I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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Faced with the thoughts, the actions of a woman whom we love, we are as completely at a loss as the world's first natural philosophers must have been, face to face with the phenomena of nature, before their science had been elaborated and had cast a ray of light over the unknown.
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Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You'll always have your family.
