Alice Dunbar Nelson Quotes
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
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Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
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In my opinion, nothing changes after you get married. If ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
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First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.
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The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.
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On Friday night, if you want to go out on a date with your wife or your girlfriend, nothing on Netflix competes with that, right? Because you're getting out; that's what you're doing. If you don't want to put your shoes on, nothing in the cinema competes with the worst thing on Netflix.
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The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
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'Everyone exploits somebody.'
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
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He was the kind of man with whom one would have hesitated to pass a lonely evening, but with whom one might cheerfully have looked forward to spending six months.
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Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.
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This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.
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Probably the best caddies are the smartest ones and the ones that are switched on mentally more than some of the others maybe.
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For many people, being asked to solve their own retirement savings problems is like being asked to build their own cars.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.
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Urban civilization is warring civilization.
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The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears.
