Eudora Welty Quotes
Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.
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Being evil is easy.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.
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But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.
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Colour is really important to me when buying clothes. I wear a lot of fitted jackets, and because I'm small, I avoid long skirts and coats. And I hate wearing hats.
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If I'm going to portray one of my idols and someone I feel... so strongly about, it has to be done right, and it has to be done 120 percent.
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Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.
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We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.
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The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.
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They just don’t trust people. They don’t trust individuals, they don’t trust any change that should serve and benefit people, and they try to stop it.
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Lingerie is one of the most important pieces of your wardrobe. You can have a wardrobe malfunction if you don't choose the right thing to wear underneath!
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I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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American workers are the best in the world. They teach our children, care for our sick and elderly, build our communities, and much more.
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I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be sure. It was heterosexist in the sense that it took the heterosexual orientation as the norm from which to start as the given. And everything that fell outside of that was not acceptable.
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Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.
