Josephine Baker Quotes
All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.

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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
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What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.
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By its very nature, non-violence cannot ‘seize’ power, nor can that be its goal. But non-violence can do more; it can effectively control and guide power without capturing the machinery of government. That is its beauty.
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We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.
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You know, I have said before, and I will say again, that when we started on this journey, we did so with an abiding faith in the American people and their ability, our ability, to join together and change the country in ways that would make life better for our kids and our grandkids.
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We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?
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No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.
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What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.
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Who would I think is the favorite? Well, to be honest, I think the top players. We are all very close, very equal.
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I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.
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Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.
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All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.