Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I like all things natural, and I love being Indian. So clothes-wise, I love wearing Indian. Does my wearing a salwar kameez instead of a dress make me less of an actor, less of a person?
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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There will be times when you just can't seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don't! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.
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Models need to be unionized.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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Difficulties are just God's errands. If we are sent upon them, it is an evidence of His confidence. Therefore, let us be glad, be happy, for it is a way of being wise.
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The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
