Sara Teasdale Quotes
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
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Africa is the future.
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I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
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One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am always walking through one proscenium into another frame.
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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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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.
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It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
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El matador de almas no mata cien almas; mata una alma sola, cien veces.
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My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.
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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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A lot of people celebrate their past, but I don't look at it all. I don't Google myself; I focus on the future. This is a volatile profession, and the moment you start thinking you've got something, that's when the floor beneath you falls through, so I hope to make more movies and TV shows.
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The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.
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We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual.
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I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
