Cecily McMillan Quotes

I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two kids in a trailer park.

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• Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.

  

  Kate Bush
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• If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
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• I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.

  

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• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  

  Vanna Bonta
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• Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• For economist the real world is often a special case.

  

  Edgar Fiedler
  • World
  • Real
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• I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.

  

  Tao Okamoto
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• There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Up
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• I frequently am contacted by people who want to thank me for 'The Brady Bunch.' Whether they grew up during the show's original television run or are brand-new fans of the present generation, they tell me how important 'The Brady Bunch' has been in their lives.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
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• Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Long
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• I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Life
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• Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Live
  • Common Sense

• There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Small
  • Nothing
  • Income

• Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Easy
  • Determination

• One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• So in this idea, then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you're all that, only you're pretending you're not. And it's perfectly OK to pretend you're not, to be perfectly convinced, because this is the whole notion of drama.

  

  Alan Watts
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• If I could act likeThis was my real life,And not some cage where I've been placed,Well then, I could tell youThe truth like I used toAnd not be afraid of sounding fake.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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  • Real
  • Truth

• In the public's mind, Special Forces are often confused with the 'door kickers' of Special Operations Forces - such as SEAL Team 6 and Delta Force - who are the United States' elite counterterrorism operators.

  

  Peter Bergen
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• To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.

  

  Paul Greengrass
  • Life
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• Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Music
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• Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care.

  

  María Concepción Balboa Buika
  • English

• When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Money
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  • Soul

• I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two kids in a trailer park.

  

  Cecily McMillan
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Struggle