Adele Logan Alexander Quotes
It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren't popular and you don't have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
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People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.
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If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Do your best and let God do the rest.
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Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.
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I grew up with parents who were English professors at Wichita State University, and we were more liberal-minded as a family than most of the people I hung out with in Wichita. During summers, we went off to Telluride, Colorado, where I've returned every summer since I was born.
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As Obamacare devolves and starts to fall apart, what do you get? This big-government largesse that is involved in Obamacare, my fear is that it's going to devolve into a single-payer system, and we really can't afford to let that happen.
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It was a lot easier to write songs before I had a record deal, because the record labels and the industry doesn't mean to put pressure on you, but they do. They don't realize that they are, but you end up having a pressure there that you feel. At times I feel myself wanting to say, 'Just let me do what I do.'
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
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Any kid in the world can draw from strengths within - we all have the potential with that.
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For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.
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I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.
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As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.
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Many children fully realize their parents see them as astonishing creatures and incorporate that into their daily presentations. That is, they throw their stuff on the floor because if you are truly amazing you can pretty much do what you want. Right?
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It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.
