Cassandra Wilson Quotes
There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
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I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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The longer people watch Netflix and the longer they stay members - they're the criteria of success for us.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
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I feel I am blessed. So many actresses went without doing a period film in their career, and I got a chance to do one in my first film.
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We're at this place where we're pushing the next stylistic envelope.
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It never occurred to me that I was important enough to have some politician go out of his way to silence me. I only found out about it in the '80s by accident - a broadcaster announced they received letters of commendation from the White House for having suppressed my music. My career was so highly impacted in the U.S. it will never recover.
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I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think.
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I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.
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There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.
