Isabel Wilkerson Quotes
America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.

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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
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I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.
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Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.
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I've been recording forever. I'm a watcher. I'm a stalker. I love everything about people. It's always been a passion for me to observe.
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Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.
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When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.
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People must respect our movement.
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Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.
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One nice thing that I have discovered about Los Angeles is the enthusiasm with which people dress.
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One of the defining things about my career on camera is I like to play different characters. That gets difficult to do. People don't trust you to do something different. In animation, it's all about trust and how far can you go away from yourself. It's a really marvelous environment that's extremely creative.
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I think people need to be treated with respect, and that's what we've demanded from everyone.
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The key relationships in the future will not be between people, but between machines and people.
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This is stupid. I now have stupid all over me.
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Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
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I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.
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Marriage was invented to make girls miserable. I will never get married again, not ever again.
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America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.