Elizabeth Catlett Quotes
I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States.
Quotes to Explore
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
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I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.
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As long as people want to see me do this action and sci-fi stuff, it would be wrong of me to deny the fans what they want to see.
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.
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My philosophy on snow skiing is that there are less expensive ways to fall down a mountain. Yet every couple of years, I go on a ski trip for the same reason that women will have multiple children - they simply forget how much it hurts.
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I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.
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By choosing better feeling thoughts and by speaking more of what you do want and less of what you don't want, you will gently tune yourself to the vibrational frequency of your Broader Perspective. To see your world through the eyes of Source is truly the most spectacular view of life, for from that vibrational vantage point, you are in alignment with, and therefore in the process of attracting, only what you would consider to be the very best of your world.
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Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.
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If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.
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Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.
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As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.
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I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States.
