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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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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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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I don't eat any red meat.
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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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It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate.
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I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.
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I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.
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I die really well, by the way. It's one of my strong points. I just take a bullet well.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.
