Cecily McMillan Quotes

My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.

Cecily McMillan

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• You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
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• I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Hair
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• When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.

  

  Pat Gillick
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• No person is just one particular emotion.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'

  

  Randy Pausch
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• If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Lost
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• My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Style

• I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Time
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  • Husband

• My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • She
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• Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

  

  Ted Nugent
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  • Reward

• Whether you watch 'Law and Order' all the time or not, everyone knows what it looks like. Everyone knows what the courtroom looks like, what the police precinct looks like.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Time
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• I always collect images, maybe because I was working with historic material - but even if I were working with contemporary material, I would do the same thing. I keep a kind of index of them while I'm working. I find them incredibly useful, not so much to illustrate a time, but to give some sense of the feeling of a time.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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  • Find

• 'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.

  

  T. Harv Eker
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  • Mind
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• I think I've been fortunate to be at the top of the game and in the media for years, and a lot of times, people want to be your friend when you're on the top. You know, there have been times when I've been injured and I never got a phone call. So that's the way it is.

  

  Venus Williams
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• To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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• True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • True
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• I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Like
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  • Leave

• À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?

  

  Victor Hugo

• Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
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  • Understanding
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• I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Men
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• Someday I will get married, and I should be able to watch my films with my children, mother-in-law, and father-in-law.

  

  Keerthy Suresh
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

  

  Michael Connelly
  • Past
  • Moving
  • Just

• My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.

  

  Cecily McMillan
  • Moving
  • Towns
  • Housing