Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Quotes

I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

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• There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.

  

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• America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
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• There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.

  

  Laura Robson
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• I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

  

  Rachael Taylor
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• In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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• Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.

  

  Kate Williams
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• It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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• There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?

  

  Zainab Salbi
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• Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.

  

  Yishan Wong
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• In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

  

  Carl Jung
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• Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.

  

  Lara St. John
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• Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Children
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• Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• There's always that stigma of, 'Women shouldn't box,' or stereotypes of what a female boxer should look like. I don't think the men really have to deal with that - to tell people they're a boxer.

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• Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this is but I love it!' I thought that was a nice compliment.

  

  Imelda May
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• As one of the first African-Americans to be out on a reality program, MTV's 'The Real World: Philadelphia,' I understand the courage it takes to live your truth on a national platform, the importance it holds to LGBT communities of color, and the power it has to create a greater conversation within American culture.

  

  Karamo Brown
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• Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
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• For 'Lonerism,' I really wanted make a non-psychedelic record. That's why the dominant instrument is the synthesiser, but maybe it didn't quite turn out that way.

  

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• We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Bob Menendez
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• I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • American
  • Democracy
  • Chain