Arwa Damon Quotes
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Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.
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I'm trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere - over my notes - and I - how do you 'lean in' at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough?
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.
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In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.
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Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.
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This office is not going to make that decision about rescheduling this game.
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How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.
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I think one of the core ideas in America has always been conversation and being able to question our systems of government, and being able to dictate our own communities and how we want this country to work. And I feel like we're losing part of that because of the way that even our current political campaign is centered more around celebrity than anything else, and so we're kind of losing conversation. We're still having conversations, but they seem to be more about like Donald Trump's hair and like memes of his face more than anything else.
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I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night.
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I write out of my intellectual experience.
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The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.'
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Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
