Beverly Jenkins Quotes
She didn’t believe that anyone should be made to spend the entire time on earth as property of someone else. No matter what it took, she was determined to see them free before she went to her grave.
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At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.
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I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.
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My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'
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There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
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Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
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We are not yet a society free of sexism, and this will continue to be an issue for all women candidates.
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I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not free, alas; I'm still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it's never finished.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
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A free trade agreement can be a win-win for E.U. and India.
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There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.
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Life is never free of contradictions.
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I thoroughly believe that shaving is the best way of hair removal, as it's the most convenient and hassle free of all the methods.
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An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
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I kind of push myself through my words and how I carry myself.
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'Napoleon Dynamite' blew up my career.
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She didn’t believe that anyone should be made to spend the entire time on earth as property of someone else. No matter what it took, she was determined to see them free before she went to her grave.
