Alma Powell Quotes
Everyone, both big and small, can pull their weight, and ensure that the hopes and dreams of every child become realities.
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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I like to write a lot of satire.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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As you recover, you will find yourself letting go of many of your negative beliefs. You will discover that many of the so-called truths you were raised with and forced to believe are not truths at all. With this perspective, you will come to see, for example, that the names you were called as a child are simply not true. You are not ‘stupid,’ ‘lazy,’ ‘ugly,’ or a ‘liar’. You can discover just who you really are. You can let go of your pretenses and masks and discover who the real person is underneath.
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
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Anyone could annihilate the infinite in an instant.
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Everyone, both big and small, can pull their weight, and ensure that the hopes and dreams of every child become realities.
