Adina Porter Quotes
I read. It affects every decision that I make. Every dollar that I spend, every dollar that I make.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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I've dealt with a lot in my life.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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Africa is the future.
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I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
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Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.
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There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.
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That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
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I like to refer to myself as king sometimes, not as queen. That's a conscious decision, because I feel like women are just equally as powerful.
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Everything you do in life affects everything else.
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Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules.
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I read. It affects every decision that I make. Every dollar that I spend, every dollar that I make.
