Ann Burton Quotes
Some people think their fingers are toes or claws, but they're actually finger bones.
Ann Burton
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
Queen Latifah
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
Obiageli Ezekwesili
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
Kate Reardon
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Saint Augustine
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I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.
Natalie Cole
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
Laraine Day
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My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
Jack McDevitt
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Even today, people tell me that the slapstick humour in 'Friends' is the most viewed comedy track on television. Siddique knows the art of mixing slapstick with genuine humour.
Vijay
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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
Fanny Kemble
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The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.
Karen Elson
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Even such is time, that takes in trustOur youth, our joys, our all we have,And pays us but with age and dust;Who in the dark and silent grave,When we have wandered all our ways,Shuts up the story of our days.But from this earth, this grave, this dust,My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Walter Raleigh
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Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations... With basketball, you can correct your own mistakes, immediately and beautifully, in midair.
Jim Carroll
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I've been exposed to a ton of 'Magneto' stories over the years, and they all influence me.
Cullen Bunn
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There is a wind of change, and if there is a wind of change on domestic issues, there is going to be a wind of change on Palestinian issues as well, it's not something done in one leap, it's a triple jump, but it's coming.
Yair Lapid
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People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.
Elsa Peretti
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It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.
A. A. Milne
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Some people think their fingers are toes or claws, but they're actually finger bones.
Ann Burton