Wilma Mankiller Quotes
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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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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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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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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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I know the hardships that my compatriots working abroad are facing.
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We moved around a lot when I was growing up. I was always the new kid in class, but I was good at making friends. With an upbringing like that, I was either going to become an actor or a politician. Thank God I became an actor! I'm not cut out for politics.
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I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.
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I'm very proud of myself because I have come so close to just giving up and I haven't done that.
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The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
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Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.
