Carl Schurz Quotes
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
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If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I am just an artiste, and I like to explore new avenues.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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The Internet is a toilet. It is.
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Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?
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When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!
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I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.
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Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
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I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.
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I started taking my fiance, Justin, to some red carpet events I would go to, and a bowtie is often something that was required. We came across a lot of stylish bowties. We liked playing dress up for these events and we thought it would be fun to start a line, but it was never a reality until recently.
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Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.
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We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.
