Barbara Jordan Quotes
We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
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When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'
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The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.
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What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
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I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
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To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.
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People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world.
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I remember watching the '96 Olympics. For some reason, I was like 'Oh yeah, I'm going to go to the Olympics some day.' At that time as a kid, I did not know for what sport or really anything.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
