Nancy Wilson Quotes
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
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In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.
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We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.
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I think I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play.
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When you live life like The Nature Boy, there are some monumental highs and, sadly, some unbelievable lows. No matter what happens in his life, he always comes back bigger and better than any of us can even imagine.
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When your happiness comes primarily from the happiness of others, you know you have moved from a 'me' experience to a 'we' experience. And the whole problem-solving and opportunity-seizing process changes.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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We're not just 'ladies in rock.' We're weird people!
