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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The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.
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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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Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.
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I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.
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Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.
