William H. Hastie Quotes
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With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
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For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
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The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
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And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.
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I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.
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There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.
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A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.
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I do not follow superstitions on court.
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I am a United States citizen and I vote.
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It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.
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And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.
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I felt pretty confident in relieving myself, since I had the urge.
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Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.
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All of us in Fiji, the Government and the people, are very proud for what you have achieved in reaching the finals of this year's Hong Kong Sevens.
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Don't let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.
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Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.
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The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.
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If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too.
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There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.
