Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes

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Fannie Lou Hamer

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• People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

  

  J. Cole
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  • Time
  • Long

• The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

  

  Tammy Bruce
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  • Question

• I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Myself
  • Walk

• I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

  

  Barry Jenkins
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  • Class

• What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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  • Poverty
  • Unemployment

• There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Peace

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
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  • Kind

• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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  • Beauty
  • Greatest

• I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.

  

  Ed Harris
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• Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.

  

  Nathan Fillion
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• I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
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• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  

  Candice Bergen
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• I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.

  

  Raghav Bahl
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• I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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• I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Heart
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  • Ideas

• Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

  

  Adam Grant
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• A good man never dies.

  

  Callimachus
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• I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
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• As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.'

  

  Jeffrey Skoll
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• Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people.

  

  George Dzundza
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• As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
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  • Rich

• We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
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