Georgia Harkness Quotes
The truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
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The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.
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The fact that nobody asks you to sing is not an indication that you should sing louder. This sounds obvious until it's applied to matters like mass transportation. There are virtually no private mass transit companies. This does not represent the failure of the market to provide a needed service, it represents the failure of an unneeded service to go away!
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The imperturbability of the Church resides in her ability to harmonize the unconditional preservation of eternal truths with an unmatchable elasticity of adjustment to the circumstances and challenges of changing times.
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In 2001, we went to raise some $3 million in venture capital in the U.S. and got rejected. So we’ve come back and raised a little bit more: $25 billion. This is not money; this is trust from the world, trust from the people.
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EXCISE - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
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Is that a real country?
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.
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I think Republicans are going to do better than Hillary Clinton any time of the day.
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I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.
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You could put me on a stage in front of 100 people, and I could do a tap dance, but one-on-one was really difficult for me. And it took me most of my life to learn how to work with that anxiety, to embrace and be comfortable with it.
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If my poor maman had still been alive, I would never have tried
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It's exciting to me, ... because we're getting back some high quality players that have been missing for a while.
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Certainly there is a depression I think a lot of Black folks are getting ready to have come January 2017 and that might be an interesting story to tell.
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Once a day, take some 'Beach Time.'
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The truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.
