Winona LaDuke Quotes
There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Dead men tell no tales.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
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Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.
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I love coming to India, and I find the people out here very warm and social as compared to people in the U.S.
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I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
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If someone thinks I'm a dickhead, fine, listen to someone else's record, then. We're not a totalitarian regime; no one's forced to listen to Coldplay. It's actually quite a compliment if you're something that people can stand against.
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Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.
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Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.
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I'm having the best day of my life, and I owe it all to not going to Church!
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The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be - today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.
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People see me doing something so all of the guys from my walk of life feel like if he can do it, I can do it. That just keeps spreading and spreading and spreading.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.
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Best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!
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In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.
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People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.
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There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.
