Madison Smartt Bell Quotes
Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way - and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we're really good at politically any more.
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All men of honor are alone.
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Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
