Ivan Allen Quotes
A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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I understand those who don't like me.
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I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.
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My left brain has gradually 'eaten' the right-brain capabilities away.
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I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
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I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.
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My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, 'Oh, I don't want this or that' - but at the end of the day, tweeting isn't a ballot. Just saying that you don't like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.
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If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.
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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
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We're past the era where denial of service simply happens because kids are looking for a good time.
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My parents thought, 'Oh, my God! What's wrong with him? He's possessed or something.' All of a sudden, I stood up and started saying my lines. From then on, that was it. I knew there was something special about the theater for me, something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.
