Nancy Wilson Quotes
I have endless admiration for people like Chrissie Hynde who've been out as the only girl in a band. I'm not sure that, even as a little Marine Corps brat, I would've been able to deal with that.
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It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I love books.
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Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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Action expresses priorities.
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Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
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I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
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The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
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But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.
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I worried so long that I would sing to empty bars my whole life. I was singing my guts out; there would be five people into it.
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I have endless admiration for people like Chrissie Hynde who've been out as the only girl in a band. I'm not sure that, even as a little Marine Corps brat, I would've been able to deal with that.
