Mahalia Jackson Quotes
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
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I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.
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The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.
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Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to compete with death.
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I was on the dole once. I loved it. It was only for a couple of years, when I was 20 or 21 and playing in a band. Back then, this was something young folk did - you got your rent paid, a little bit of money to live on, and you loafed around, wrote songs, rehearsed and dreamed of playing Wembley Stadium.
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People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are.
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I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
