Q'orianka Kilcher Quotes
I honestly think I was an Indian living in the time of the Trail of Tears. Something like that. Every time I read books about back then, I get so devastatingly sad, so, so... I feel such a deep connection to it.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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If you're advertising on Facebook, the work you're doing should be made better by being on Facebook. You can't just be repurposing old TV commercials and hoping to get traction; that's very primitive. The question, always, is, 'How is this idea made better by this medium?'
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Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
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There has always been cheating going on in pitching and hitting. As far as cheating, using a wooden bat and flattening the hitting surface, that has always been going on. ... It is usually discovered in pretty good time.
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I honestly think I was an Indian living in the time of the Trail of Tears. Something like that. Every time I read books about back then, I get so devastatingly sad, so, so... I feel such a deep connection to it.
