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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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.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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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.
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You are an individual, and you came here on your own as a child, and you will die on your own. The fact that you may live in a community or with your family does not change the solitude of your spiritual journey. By cluttering your life with many things, you soon lose sight of who you are and what you came for.
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India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.
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All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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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.
