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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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 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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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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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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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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He liked everything about the university except the students.
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Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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If we get it right, there need not be losers.
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A dark unfathom'd tide Of interminable pride - A mystery, and a dream, Should my early life seem.
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Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you - that's how I view it, because I try to see the positive in things.
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Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again. "So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking.
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Music is, by far, the best art. Nothing even comes close. It's so immediate and emotional. In writing, maybe ninety percent of it is the unconscious and ten percent is control. In music, I think it's probably more like ninety-nine percent the unconscious. It's just a beautiful thing happening through you. And so, too, is writing a great story.
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I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.
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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.
