Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
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It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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My best friend is my husband.
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It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
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I don't any longer make any quality judgement between theater and cinema. They are different experiences for the audience, and they also are for the actors - although they have a lot in common.
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The flame is not out, but it is flickering.
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The great scientists have been occupied with values—it is only their vulgar followers who think they are not. If scientists like Descartes, Newton, Einstein, Darwin, and Freud don’t “look deeply into experience,” what do they do? They have imaginations as powerful as any poet’s and some of them were first-rate writers as well. How do you draw the line between Walden and The Voyage of the Beagle? The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations—like that of the artistic imagination.
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What's important is that we see each year what the opportunities are, and make use of the opportunity.
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Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.
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I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].
