Assata Shakur Quotes

People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

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• I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Life
  • Always
  • Angels

• You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Like

• In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • True
  • Improvement

• I follow my nose. It’s as simple as that.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Simple
  • Noses

• Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Helping

• The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Rational

• When I successfully bring the Mamas & the Papas movie to fruition, I hope that people will say, 'She's also a producer.'

  

  Michelle Phillips The Mamas & The Papas
  • Movie
  • Fruition
  • The Mamas & the Papas

• Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

  

  Sean Connery
  • True
  • Right
  • Mankind

• It would be creepy if you knew my home address.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Creepy
  • Address

• The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Nature
  • Woman
  • Weakness

• Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Work
  • Wrecks

• The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive.

  

  Paul LePage
  • Alive
  • Newspapers
  • Part Of Life

• A woman knows her children's friends, hopes, dreams, romances, secret fears, what they are thinking, how they are feeling and, usually, what mischief they are plotting. Men are vaguely aware of some short people also living in the house.

  

  Allan Pease
  • Men
  • House
  • Woman

• The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.

  

  R. J. Palacio
  • People
  • Memories
  • Honor

• The Force is really a way of feeling; it's a way of being with life. It really has nothing to do with weapons. The Force gives you the power to have extrasensory perception and to be able to see things and hear things, read minds and levitate things. It is said that certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells.

  

  George Lucas
  • Different
  • Power
  • Feelings

• People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

  

  Assata Shakur
  • Newspapers
  • Courtroom
  • Convicted