Assata Shakur Quotes
In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
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'Little Night' comes from deep in my heart, and tells about the lengths people will go for love.
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My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.
