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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I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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I've lived my career backwards - I started off huge and I've got smaller and more personal, and I'm much more comfortable now.
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There is every reason to believe that if humans had not arrived on the scene, the Neanderthals would be there still, along with the wild horses and the woolly rhinos. With the capacity to represent the world in signs and symbols comes the capacity to change it, which, as it happens, is also the capacity to destroy it.
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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.
