Sarah Louise Delany Quotes
On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103: We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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I have white hair now, but a lot of it, and I'm still very glamorous, and so I won't disappoint, I hope! I'll still be wearing the tight leather trousers and high-heel boots, regardless of what age!
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it's the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.
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For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.
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I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
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We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
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There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us, we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs.
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Lots of really interesting people move to U.S and decide to work here, because of this whole attitude and openness. I'm absolutely convinced that this is just the beginning. In a couple decades we will see an even more dramatic change.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103: We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair.
