Barbara Jordan Quotes
You need a core inside you-a core that directs everything you do. You confer with it for guidance. It is not negotiable.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
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I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
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If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters.
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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I love to smoke things; there's usually something always in the pot outside. That smell of something in the smoker just reminds me of home.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes didn't see - or refused to see - what the people around him were really up to. But everything I did, I did for Ronnie. I did for love.
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I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.
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What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
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During difficult times, it's best to cut down on sweets like cookies, cake and candy. Satisfy your sweet tooth with fruit to help prevent blood sugar dips and spikes.
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I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.
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Above all, the fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers, as well as the entire franchise, deserve and need our players and coaches to dig deep within themselves.
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In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.
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If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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A true champion will fight through anything.
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You need a core inside you-a core that directs everything you do. You confer with it for guidance. It is not negotiable.
