Assata Shakur Quotes
In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.
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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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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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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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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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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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I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.
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I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man nothing but instant flight could save him.
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I've sung some songs that were lame,I've slept with girls on the game.
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I really don't think of myself as a science writer.
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When you write something by hand, there's a sort of intimacy that is just intrinsic to that act. You don't get to delete something in the same way, where it's like it was never there.
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I saw myself as Joan of Arc.
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I mean, I feel like I've been pretending I was a werewolf since I was a little kid.
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I am not a home breaker and I can never be. I haven't been brought up to create havoc in other people's homes.
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I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills.
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I don't have anything against CGI.
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In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.
