C. Vivian Stringer Quotes

There were so many things that were wrong (against West Virginia). We just have to re-define our roles a little, do what we have to do and how we can do it.

C. Vivian Stringer

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• I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Guy
  • Feeling

• My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Thinking
  • Parents
  • Sound

• My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Light
  • Spirit

• I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Development
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• It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that's what perks interest. If you have full freedom, what do you do?

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Long
  • Freedom
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• There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully.

  

  Victor Mature
  • You
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  • Said

• After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Up
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• Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Happy
  • Should
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• love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come.

  

  Hadewijch
  • Fire

• It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Dog

• God blessed me with another opportunity. If that didn't work, I'd probably be in (the interview room) now, losing a lot of money.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Work
  • God
  • Money

• Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Belief
  • Persistence
  • Measurement

• I am passionate about what is going on with the oceans, mainly because we are for some idiotic reason, really screwing it up. I mean, we're really killing the ocean. It's like putting out the sun. Without it, there is no us.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Passionate
  • Oceans
  • Idiotic reason

• The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Kind
  • Audience

• Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Impossible
  • Economy
  • Function

• There were so many things that were wrong (against West Virginia). We just have to re-define our roles a little, do what we have to do and how we can do it.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Roles
  • Can Do
  • Many Things