Wilma Mankiller Quotes
Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.
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I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love.
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Fortunately for me, it's my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we don't have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.
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I love so many styles of music.
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I've always been a very outdoors sort of girl. I'm more a tomboy than a girly girl.
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Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.
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Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
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In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.
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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
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For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.
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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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I have always done work to which my heart says yes.
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By some estimates, the oil you recently discovered off the shores of Brazil could amount to twice the reserves we have in the United States. We want to work with you. We want to help with technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely, and when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers.
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
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I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why.
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Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and of the quarter to which they are exposed, and secondly on the use of pure water; this latter point is by no means a secondary consideration. For the elements which we use the most and oftenest for the support of the body contribute most to health, and among those are water and air. Wherefore, in all wise states, if there is want of pure water, and the supply is not all equally good, the drinking water ought to be separated from that which is used for other purposes.
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Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.
