Nell Irvin Painter Quotes
In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be people from the near east like Turks or Muslims or North Africans, all of whom might well be considered white in the United States.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.
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The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.
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I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.
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I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
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I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.
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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
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I love doing my own thing, and I won't let anything get in my way.
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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Ever since I've ever heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise - as clean as possible, anyway, and more or less tuned to people. Something they could understand, something that was beautiful, you know?
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We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
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Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.
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Africa has lost its dream, and when people don't have a dream and don't pursue it, they flounder. People are shocked that I would move to Africa. But I say the place of greatest need is the place of greatest opportunity.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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The power of emotions as drivers of behaviour, especially when survival is perceived as being at stake, needs to be recognised and taken into account at all levels of society and governance.
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I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.
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In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be people from the near east like Turks or Muslims or North Africans, all of whom might well be considered white in the United States.
