Alice Mattison Quotes
We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.
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I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.
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I live in a fantasy world where I think I'm immune to all disease. I don't get sick and haven't had anything major go wrong.
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We don't believe in a world of us versus them; we look at the world as all of us together.
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No one can say which approach is the right one - so no one can say how close we are to a solution.
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We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] spent a lot of time writing, for lack of a better word, this manifesto about what we wanted to do. We wanted to find work that was relevant socially and that didn't take audiences for granted.
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When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression.
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We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.
