Barbara Jordan Quotes
One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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My health is fine.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.
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What you can do is present existing flavors in a fresh way, in a fresh context.
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There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
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Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
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I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.
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I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, 'His life is over.'
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
