Anne Spencer Quotes
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.
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This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.
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'I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong again.' p76
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I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
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I want to make sure that teenage girls know that if you decide to keep your child, you have to get an education. You have to have a plan A, B, and C. Make sure you have a good support system. If all those things are not in place, it's going to be very, very hard - very, very lonely.
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Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.
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I really want women to appreciate their power. It was obvious to me that lots of people are comfortable with power, and they see what it can do, but women's expression of it was never as comprehensive as it could be. It seemed like an amazing gift that Oxygen could give.
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I love 'Sex and the City,' but it's also wonderful that there's something else other than 'Sex and the City.'
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I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.
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I've realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it's my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always.
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As soon as something becomes 'trendy,' I go off it. I hate the idea of being a sheep and just following a look because I've been told it's fashionable. Individuality makes the world a much more interesting place.
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You gotta flex. You gotta look good, bro. Especially coming from the outskirts and wanting to take over the whole Atlanta.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.
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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
