Maxine Waters Quotes
I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
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When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother.
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Protest is best used when it's part of a strategy that involves escalating tactics that build pressure on targets.
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Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that the country is going to be better than ever.
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I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.
