Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
My mother was a great woman. To look at her from the suffering she had gone through to bring us up - 20 children: 6 girls and 14 boys, but still she taught us to be decent and to respect ourselves, and that is one of the things that has kept me going, even after she passed.
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I've never been a partier.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.
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I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
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I like a woman who takes care of herself – it says something about the way she'll care for me.
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Men are seizing on Jesus as the exponent of their own social convictions. They all claim him. ...But in truth Jesus was not a social reformer of the modern type... he approached these facts purely from the moral, and not from the economic or historical point of view.
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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It's about not going to the well all the time. The body has limits. The mind has limits, too.
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My mother was a great woman. To look at her from the suffering she had gone through to bring us up - 20 children: 6 girls and 14 boys, but still she taught us to be decent and to respect ourselves, and that is one of the things that has kept me going, even after she passed.
