Odetta Holmes (Odetta) Quotes
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?
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My dog Tucker likes to walk late at night because it is a good way to keep me awake. Apparently, the one time I took him for a stroll around midnight represented, to him, a commitment similar to marriage.
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War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.
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In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.
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I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.
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One day in the countryIs worth a month in town.
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Every time I sign a ball, and there must have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn’t born Coveleski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh.
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Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.
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No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.
