Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Quotes
If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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Predominantly I'm an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there's always a ball right next to me somewhere. I do a lot of sports, but I do enjoy wearing a lot of suits.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.
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There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.
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I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
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Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what - it's not. It's rough as guts. It's great.
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We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.
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I've always been a little left-of-center at school.
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We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.
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Maybe this won't last very long but you feel so right and I could be wrong. Maybe I've been hoping too hard. I've gone this far and it's more than I hope for.
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And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.
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How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
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If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.
