Septima Poinsette Clark Quotes
My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.
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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
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I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
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There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
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The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.
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When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.
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My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.
