Medgar Evers Quotes
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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I love to feel glamourous. I love to have other women feel glamourous.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.
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Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.
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By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't think God would have created this whole big huge cosmos and just say there's only going to be life on Earth, and that's it.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and my favourite, Kate Winslet. No one ever says, 'Oh, she's making a comeback.' To my mind, I just went on maternity leave and reported back to work.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.
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In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
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We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
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You may laugh of the idea of the good will of others in Hollywood, but it's no laughing matter if you don't have it.
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Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
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When Clark Gable, MGM's most popular and famous leading man asked for a percentage of the profits from his films, he was flatly refused. A top executive was reported to have said, He's nobody. We took him from nobody. We lavished him with lessons and publicity and now he's the most desired man in the world. Who taught him how to walk? We straightened his teeth and capped them into that smile. We taught this dumb cluck how to depict great emotions, and now he wants a piece of the action? Never!
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I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.
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If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.
