Karen Finney Quotes
I think part of running for president, people want to know who you are, what influenced you, what motivates you, not just where you stand on issues but what is in your heart and what were things in your life that led you to believe the things you believe in, and fight for.
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I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.
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We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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I believe a true Hindu in India could never have endorsed the killing of the Mahatma.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.
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I really believe in the power of music.
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When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.
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I was probably 21 or 22 years old when I realized the prose that I live by, which is, 'You get what you give.' The more good deeds that you could do in your life, the more fulfilling and enriched your life is going to be. I truly believe that.
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I believe that Christianity in the United States has been dragging its feet, and I don't think there's any other force in America that has been more detrimental to the solution of our racial problems than Christianity.
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I had to work up the courage to even imagine myself running for Congress. But I eventually decided that our country had a moral problem in only letting white men - even the right-minded ones - have a seat at the table.
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If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you.
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That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language.
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I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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People think my family pushed me into running for office. The person who pushed me most not to run for office was my father.
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A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.
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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
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I don't believe in a redistribution of wealth.
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I shall be active and vigorous even from the tomb.
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'The Luminaries' is such a different book to 'The Rehearsal.' There are only a couple of things that link the two books: there's a certain preoccupation with looking at relationships from the outside, being shut out of human intimacy; and then there's patterning.
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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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I think part of running for president, people want to know who you are, what influenced you, what motivates you, not just where you stand on issues but what is in your heart and what were things in your life that led you to believe the things you believe in, and fight for.
