Barbara Jordan Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and make sure that you surround yourself with good people, especially if you're a woman. You've got to find a team that takes you seriously as a female fighter and is not going to rush you into the ring before you're ready.
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I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
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I don't mind dating younger men now.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.
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I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.
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You get caught up thinking about the future, you lose sight of the present.
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When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.
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I read 'Lean In' at a really important time as I was deciding to run for office.
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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
