Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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People work hard.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
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From my point of view it's impossible to cut debt in a country with new debt from another country.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.
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This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.
