C. Vivian Stringer Quotes
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My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.
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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
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I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes.
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The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.
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I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
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You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
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What’s her name? Claire, what’s her name?
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Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.
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History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
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I'm not up for changing the 10th amendment or the 14th amendment, the first amendment or the second amendment.
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No moral system can rest solely on authority.
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No animal has to suffer for me to live.
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Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.
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If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.
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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.
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I wanted to go to university and experience something that I felt like I'd missed. I wanted to be around bright, intelligent young people who were learning about themselves.
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When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out of Molly's parlor: remedies and doctors and procedures, some mainstream and some New Age. They related anecdotes of friends who had removed their own cows in one way or another. But after a while they had exhausted their suggestions. Then they usually began to pretend that the cow wasn't there, and they preferred for Molly to go along with the pretense.
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Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.
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I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first. And it was a part of my essence. So I knew that I would evolve into this world.
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From virtue all happy states arise.
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The party is on my birthday, June 21 - my 21st on the 21st, which is Midsummer's Day, the longest day of the year and the longest night for a lot of people who are helping to organize it. My father very kindly suggested having a party, although he's probably regretting it now.
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An enemy never seems quite as formidable when he is whimpering in chains, so that you forget how he looked sneering at you when you were miserable
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Essence takes great pleasure in creating zeros on anybody that she plays.
