Harvey Milk Quotes
If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.
Quotes to Explore
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There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?
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There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
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I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
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Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.
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It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.
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Basketball wasn't going particularly well, but in my senior year, I did a play and got a wonderful card from a professor that said, 'I don't know what your plans are after school or if acting is a part of it, but you have something special.' Hearing that from someone who I had so much respect for pointed me in that direction.
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Most of us get our history through story.
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Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings Of those white elders; but, escaping, Left only Death's ironic scraping. Now, in its immortality, it plays On the clear viol of her memory, And makes a constant sacrament of praise.
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I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.
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Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.
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It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me.
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And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to.
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Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play...
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It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.
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Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.
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I don't think I'll ever be able to fully explain the way that the Velvet Underground's records opened a door in my head. But it has something to do with Lou Reed as a mythic figure: a person who fitted no category, who defied limits and trends and definitions.
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Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
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If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.
