Isabel Wilkerson Quotes
You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed.
Isabel Wilkerson
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
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Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.
M. Stanton Evans
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
Dan Webster
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
Victor LaValle
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Enjoy every sandwich.
Warren Zevon
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
Tara Lipinski
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The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.
Dan Pink
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
Gail Collins
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If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.
Tavi Gevinson
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I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
Larry King
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
Idina Menzel
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To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.
Kate Winslet
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I have a treadmill, and I work out with my trainer, Julie Diamond, as often as possible. She's so positive.
Emily Deschanel
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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
William Jennings Bryan
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I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.
F. Sionil Jose
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There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.
James Levine
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You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed.
Isabel Wilkerson
