Bernice L. McFadden Quotes
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.
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We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.
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The pitch for the show, the real pitch, when Larry and I went to NBC in 1988, was we want to show how a comedian gets his material. The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later, and Larry and I to this day are surprised that it caught on as a way that people describe the show, because to us it's the opposite of that.
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If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.
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Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.' It doesn't happen for people.
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I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten possum - possum's no good.
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Instagram has a faster chance of reaching me than CNN, and if I really want to know what's going on, I refresh my Twitter feed.
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Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
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Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.
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When we don't unite, we do a terrible job.
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I'm always pushing back against the last thing I did in some way, and some of that is restlessness and a sense of limited time.
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A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
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What was once known as a mature age, disappeared. Now people prefer to stay young for a long time, and then immediately fall into childhood.
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I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.
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You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.
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Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.
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That’s who we were, wartorn meadows on the verge of new growth.
