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.
Barbara Jordan
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I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
Malaika Arora Khan
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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!'
Patrick Duffy
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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.
Vincent Bugliosi
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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.
Walter Payton
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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.'
Danica McKellar
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The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.
Octavia Spencer
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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.
Oprah Winfrey
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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.
Jack O'Brien
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
Rachel Kushner
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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
Barbara Jordan
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The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.
Zack Snyder
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I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.
Taylor Swift
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In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!
Maeve Binchy
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History never repeats, but there are the obvious precedents that pessimists can reach for: Sarajevo, 1914; the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, 1938. But equally relevant might be the tragically meaningless guarantees Britain extended to Poland in 1939.
Alistair Horne
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Diesen Ernsthaften diene zur Belehrung, dass ich von der Kunst als der höchsten Aufgabe und der eigentlich metaphysischen Thätigkeit dieses Lebens im Sinne des Mannes überzeugt bin, dem ich hier, als meinem erhabenen Vorkämpfer auf dieser Bahn, diese Schrift gewidmet haben will.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
Oscar Wilde
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I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
Diana Ross
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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.
Barbara Jordan
