Nydia Velazquez Quotes
There are people out there who don't like me, and that's because I speak out the way I feel.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.
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I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
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Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
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During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.
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Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.
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I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.
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There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.
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If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.
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There are people out there who don't like me, and that's because I speak out the way I feel.
