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'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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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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You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
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Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
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And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.
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Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea.
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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.
