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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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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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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Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
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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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One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.
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People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.
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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
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When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.
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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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Marx was the magnificent philosopher of working class violence.
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Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.
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My dream collaboration would probably be Sam Smith.
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Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study began with slave folktales and American Indian stories of contact with whites.
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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.
