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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I don't like to come to tournaments, like, one week before, because I just need, like, a few days, and then I'm ready to go for it.
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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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A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.
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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.
