Anne Spencer Quotes
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
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I've been a lucky boy.
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
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I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.
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I always put on M.A.C. Prep and Primer before anything.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
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We have been using foreign affairs ministries to address security issues, but this practice is outdated. It's time to assign the handling of regional security to national organizations and expert institutions.
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If you've given away a sense of your own destiny, you need enormous amounts of hierarchy and protection within the structure to make up for what you've given away.
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Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.
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Give me 30 minutes rest, little drink of water. Give me 30 minutes, and I can fight with anybody.
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It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.
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Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.
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My cousin was Ron O'Neal, who was 'Superfly.' Films like 'Shaft' and 'Superfly' were the biggest things out there in the early '70s. It's hard to remember just how big they were - how much impact they had on the culture, the music, the fashions, the hair styles.
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There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.
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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.
