Michelle Alexander Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
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I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
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We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.
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We have a rich tradition here in the United States of great decathletes, which is amazing 'cause we have absolutely no program to develop these guys. Zero. There's nothing. They do it on their own, just like I did back in '76.
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
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To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and 'rich' and 'wicked' are almost synonymous terms.
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I'm trying to stay a song ahead, two songs ahead of everybody else.
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When I started my career, I never looked at myself as one to be inspirational, but as I continued to grow, I've met so many different people who ask, 'How do you do it? You make it look easy.' But it's not easy. I have certain tricks and tips I use every day that have been working for me.
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God is a frequency. Stay tuned.
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There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.
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There are certain things we can only do together. There are certain things only a union can do. Only a union could harness the courage of our pioneers to settle the American west, which is why President Abraham Lincoln passed a Homestead Act giving a tract of land to anyone seeking a stake in our growing economy.
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I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
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Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.
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A true nation is held together not by any political creed but by patriotism.... For two centuries, men have died for America.
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We have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it.
