Anthea Butler Quotes
Gentrification is stripping people not only of their homes but also of their dignity and their lives, and it is effectively whitening public spaces.
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I'm not saving lives.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
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Silence is my dignity.
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.
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Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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No damn man kills me and lives.
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I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.
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I'm here to say all lives matter.
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Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
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I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
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Someone said to me that we have to encourage more young women to want top-level editing jobs. I think that will happen naturally as we have more role models, more examples of boss ladies who aren't sad and cruel and overworked and undersexed like in DevilWearsPrada, but who are straight-up owning it and notable not for their gender but for their editorial savvy.
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But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
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Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.
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Gentrification is stripping people not only of their homes but also of their dignity and their lives, and it is effectively whitening public spaces.
