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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Generally speaking, the misfit's story is easier to tell.
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The superabundance is an ecological myth that we will never run out of resources, that the Earth, that Gaia, is in this perpetual state of renewal. And the "contagious magic" is the blind belief that this is the case, and the reason we're careering towards ecological disaster.
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We sit here safe, within a circle of swords held by other men.
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Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread and its ships could fill the seas, but these nations are dead, and we must build upon a different foundation if we would avoid their fate.
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I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.
