Bethann Hardison Quotes
Activism has to remain active. That's the trademark slogan and that's the mantra, because if your foot doesn't stay on the pedal, the car will stop.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
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I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.
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I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.
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I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.
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Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.
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When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.
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I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
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My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
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On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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I first began to tell tales to delight the world and make it wiser...
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The beginning of wisdom is to admit to being inept. We’re all a bit slow. We have our moments, but in the end, we have to resort to bumbling through. It is what makes conviction so egregious.
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Now in India, a village boy who has worked his way up to work at a call center, or if he gets a job working even as a busboy in a Taj or an Oberoi hotel, he'll put on his wedding announcement with pride, 'Busboy at the Taj' or 'Call center, Office Tiger.'
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Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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As a child I had terrible asthma.
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If you have never taken the train across Canada, you really should put it on your life list... Meanwhile, I get to sit back and watch for moose from the dome car as we roll through the lake-dotted vastness of the boreal forest.
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Activism has to remain active. That's the trademark slogan and that's the mantra, because if your foot doesn't stay on the pedal, the car will stop.
