Wilma Mankiller Quotes
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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Metaphysics is a science.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
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I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.
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I am usually cooking at least four times a week if I am home. The easiest thing that I do a lot is gazpacho. It's simple and it tastes best if you let it sit over night in the refrigerator... I don't want anybody near me when I am cooking. If I am going to make a mistake, it has to be my fault.
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It was the most pleasurable thing I've ever done, playing this character, and I just remember feeling so at home and so - I don't know, I was just happy - and it just wasn't ever work! It was like a sandbox for me, and I would crack myself up rehearsing.
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The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
Biz Stone -
I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.
