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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says.
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I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me.
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I'd like to run a professional football team. I'd love to run the USTA, be the sports editor of the 'New York Times.'
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It's been interesting seeing how vulnerable Obama is: not the secure president I thought he was or the strong leader that many people hoped he would be. He's a conciliator. But I've been listening to the Republican primary debates, and they're a bunch of lunatics. Just crazy.
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In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.
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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.
