Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time in all of her life.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
Maajid Nawaz
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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I've never been a partier.
Victoria Justice
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
Yves Chauvin
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
Ted Dekker
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Larry Bird
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Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
Carine Roitfeld
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
Aasif Mandvi
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
Vera Wang
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
Edie Falco
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That was the bat signal for me - 'Rent' changed my life. It took me years before I got beyond that show.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
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It takes such a commitment of passion and energy and time, and it's all so encompassing to direct that you've got to see the bullseye, and you know you can hit it - or at least get awfully close.
Jonathan Mostow
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
Karen DeCrow
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
Pam Ferris
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If I watch something, I want to be wondering what is going to happen next; I want to be engaged in a way that makes me ask questions and think about how I can relate myself to the characters and the issues that are there. But if it's just fluff, and everything is spelt out, I find it difficult to concentrate.
Ewen Bremner
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I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time in all of her life.
Fannie Lou Hamer