Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
Vernon Jordan -
Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
Octavia E. Butler -
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
Harold Bloom -
Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
Adam McKay -
My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
Nancy Pelosi -
I don't think about the media.
Zara Phillips
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
Jackie Robinson -
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
Gabrielle Union -
Music is such a part of my soul.
Victoria Justice -
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
Iman -
I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
Natsuki Takaya -
I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got it right in the back of the neck; all the juice was coming down. It was awful.
Pat Burns -
Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
Dan Brown -
I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
Najib Mikati -
I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'
Samuel Larsen
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The historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves in cycles of three. The number figures in everything from Pythagoras's theory that the universe is based on three to the Father-the-Son-and-the-Holy- Ghost to the three-sided pyramidal shapes that intersect in the Jewish Star of David. The notion of the mystical three, metaphysically, spiritually, and even politically, is quite interesting to me.
Marianne Williamson -
'Life is the continuation of existence, yet no thing endures. We are all patterns, seeking to propagate. Patterns which bring other patterns into being, then vanish, as if we’ve never been.'
David Brin -
What I did, anybody can do.
Weegee -
Nothing truly bad happens. There's always good and bad in any changes.
Jenova Chen -
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
Anne Roiphe -
TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
Abbie Hoffman