Bethann Hardison Quotes
A friend of mine, Kim Hastreiter, who owns Paper Magazine, she told me, "When you left, it really changed things and you need to do something." So with the encouragement of others, I stayed around and watched, and I saw that all the girls before, such an enormous group of girls of color, all shades, it began to disappear.

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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
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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.
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.
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I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
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As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
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I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.
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Cui peccare licet, peccat minus.
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Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger-according to the way you react to it.
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By the time I was 10 or 13, I'd learned the world capitals.
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Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.
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More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap without which we can't progress or even survive. I don't believe our civilization can continue very long out of contact with the primitive.
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I think today we're setting a constitutional marker and also a constitutional check on presidential power because you can't allow the president to move forward with unfettered fashion.
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If [Donald ] Trump goes after - if Trump fails, frankly, to stand up right now for the Muslim community - right now, Muslims are being bullied. Women wearing hijabs are being bullied and people are saying, "Trump, Trump!" when they're doing it.
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How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
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I work out every morning. Only half an hour. I get on the treadmill. That's it. Every morning, I don't care what time. It gets your blood flowing. It gets your adrenaline flowing. I believe in eating well. It's not fanatical. Eat good food. Make sure you've got good vegetables.
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The family that prays together stays together, and if they stay together they will love one another as God has loved each one of them. And works of love are always works of peace.
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A friend of mine, Kim Hastreiter, who owns Paper Magazine, she told me, "When you left, it really changed things and you need to do something." So with the encouragement of others, I stayed around and watched, and I saw that all the girls before, such an enormous group of girls of color, all shades, it began to disappear.