Wilma Mankiller Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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I love anything to do with history.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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When I got to the stadium, one of my biggest things was watching video of hitters.
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And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.
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I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
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When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words. In the work, everything belongs to everything else - the music, the set, the movement and whatever is said.
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His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura of doom and sadness about this trusting little creature. He has been abandoned many times over the centuries, left to die in cold city alleys, in hot noon vacant lots, pottery shards, nettles, crumbled mud walls. Many times he has cried for help in vain.
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Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.
