Barbara Jordan Quotes
It was immigration that taught us, it does not matter where you came from, or who your parents were. What counts is who you are.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
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I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
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I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother used to be like... 'Really, are you badly behaved with other people?' I was like, 'No, not at all.' But the minute she used to leave the room, I was a brat.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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We keep calling for accountability and reinvestment and a push for all of us to imagine a world where black people are not policed but instead supported and loved and cared for. Where our families can feel safe and inspired and protected.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
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Everything in culture moves in a cyclical way.
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There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials.
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I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.
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It was immigration that taught us, it does not matter where you came from, or who your parents were. What counts is who you are.
