William Ellery Channing Quotes
One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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People take things so seriously.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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There's a lot of buying power from the Middle East. Girls from Dubai want to be able to wear Asos, and you have people travelling all the way to the States just to go shopping.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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My private life became public.
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African-Americans don't need handouts and donations; we can hire ourselves if white corporate America does business with us in a fair and equitable way.
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Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.
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One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.
