Maya Angelou Quotes
Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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For a lot of people, it's a massive deal to be on the front row at Fashion Week and look perfect. I don't go to be seen; I go to look at the collections and support my friends, like Henry, Giles and Jonathan Saunders. As much as I love clothes and shopping, it doesn't drive me.
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You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
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Let's be realistic – 90% of superheroes are male. Personally, I prefer Superman, Batman and Spider-Man to Wonder Woman. Not that I don't like female superheroes, but watching male superheroes gives me a high.
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Have you considered that these prophecies were not divine revelations, but merely manipulation from some secular power?
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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Even so, I must admire your skill.You are so gracefully insane.
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Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.
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As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae and Nina Simone. I loved that they each covered the same songs and interpreted them totally differently. I thought that was so cool. They could each paint their own picture of that moment.
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Each country has to decide how to best engage their own citizens and their own policy environment to ensure they can produce the food they need.
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There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
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I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.
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Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more?
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If you feel good about who you are inside, it will radiate.
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You put on the military outfit, and it definitely tightens everything up and makes you stand up straighter.
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Even if nobody cared, I'm still gonna make music.
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Just like all these guys feel comfortable here, I want to feel comfortable, too. Why do I always have to have my back against the wall and have to prove something to everybody? You get tired of it. After a while, it becomes -- .
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I'm not focused on what other people think of me.
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I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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I believe that also it should be stressed and made clear that our antagonistic position is not to say "I don't like whites" for the simple fact of not liking white people. It's like, our fight is not against the white person per se, but against the exercises of white supremacy and the form in which whiteness and the politics of whiteness operates.
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Because drugs have become so profitable, major medical journals rarely publish studies on nondrug treatments of mental health problems.31 Practitioners who explore treatments are typically marginalized as “alternative.” Studies of nondrug treatments are rarely funded unless they involve so-called manualized protocols, where patients and therapists go through narrowly prescribed sequences that allow little fine-tuning to individual patients’ needs. Mainstream medicine is firmly committed to a better life through chemistry, and the fact that we can actually change our own physiology and inner equilibrium by means other than drugs is rarely considered.
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Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.
