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 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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Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.
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I had all the confidence in Jay. I knew he was going to hit a big one for us.
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Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.
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Each time I saw a cliff, I wondered whether I could free solo it. My life shaped itself around the understanding that falling means I die. To break the paradigm I had to empty out my essence, rummaging for fundamentals I thought were gone forever.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.
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Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.
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Essence takes great pleasure in creating zeros on anybody that she plays.
