Barbara Jordan Quotes
We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It's an all-black, all-male school. Martin Luther King went there. The most famous person in my class was Spike Lee. And I really caught fire. I was so inspired by the people around me that I went from C's and D's to straight A's by the time I left.
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I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.
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We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
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We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
