Abraham Lincoln Quotes
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow.
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
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First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.
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I said, look, do you think you could bring Gerry through, and they said yeah, absolutely, they thought that. Joel was very keen to cast him. If all my music team were happy, I was happy.
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One is born to be a great dancer.
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Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.
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Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
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That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.
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Remember your dream is your only scheme, so keep on pushing.
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The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat - & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you - so don't play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr - accept the fact that you're a criminal & be prepared to act like one.
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the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.
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Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?
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My heart's desire is to be recognised in Nigeria.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
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In 2006, the global economy was doing well. In India, the political and economic situation was stable. All key macroeconomic indicators reflected an economy that was in robust good health.
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We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow.
