Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
We didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than we’d gotten here. We didn't come all this way for no two seats, 'cause all of us is tired.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
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I gained a lot of confidence after 'IP Man' as being a true actor. I went on to tackle what it is an actor is supposed to do before a film. Do a lot of research, get into the character. That's what I did with 'Dragon.'
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Don't be afraid to try something new.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
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We didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than we’d gotten here. We didn't come all this way for no two seats, 'cause all of us is tired.
