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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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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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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In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adventures of disabled children, travellers and gipsies, LGBT teens, different cultures, classes, colours, religions. It shouldn't be a token gesture, nor do such stories need to be 'issue-based'.
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The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.
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I've always enjoyed seeing how things are made.
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I love Twitter. As an entertainer, it's a way to connect with the fans, and I think that's important.
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You look at, like, a 'People' magazine, which used to be a really good, you know, nice magazine you could go to for real stories. It wasn't like a 'Star' or an 'US Weekly' and they have somebody with plastic surgery on the cover, Heidi Montag. And it's obviously what consumers want, because why else would they be doing it?
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.
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In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.
