Bebe Moore Campbell Quotes
African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.
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If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.
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I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
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I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
