Courtney Milan (Heidi Bond) Quotes
“Do Chinese dragons even eat people?” “She lives in the Bay Area,” I say severely. “She eats a Westernized diet.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.
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When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.
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If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.
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The first blow is half the battle.
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Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis.
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He who perceives death perceives a sense of the human comedy, and quickly becomes a poet.
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Savoir n'est rien, imaginer est tout.
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Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
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You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.
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Fifty million Americans have dementia and other brain illnesses. To gather together the minds that exist and see how we can tackle these ailments together, that is the work that is in front of us: to have a map of the human brain, an understanding of the roadways, and an understanding of the traffic on the roadways.
Chaka Fattah -
My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of political upheaval, and there was a lot of loss that came with that, so my parents were reluctant to talk about those things. So I had, by and large, an American childhood.
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Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.
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The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.
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I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.
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For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.
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Most of us are inclined to look upon success as coming in some mysterious way through advantages that we do not have. Perhaps because we do have them, we don't see them. The obvious is often unseen.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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Implicit bias - our subconscious associations of race - permeates everything that we do. And we must pursue systemic accountability to fix it.
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“Do Chinese dragons even eat people?” “She lives in the Bay Area,” I say severely. “She eats a Westernized diet.
