Alice Walker Quotes
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
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I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
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Nothing could be as hard as middle school.
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I always like to tell a story.
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Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.
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Charles went towards the table, but he had no lady-like powers of filling four sheets with nothing, and the letter was soon sealed.
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That men should ‘turn the other cheek,’ should ‘love their enemies,’ should ‘resist not evil,’ has ever seemed fine to teach to children, to preach on Sundays, to round a period in a senseless oratorical flight; but it has been taken for granted that these sentiments cannot furnish the real foundation for strong characters or great states. p. 13
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As we passed under the last bridge over the canal, just before reaching the Merrimack, the people coming out of church paused to look at us from above, and apparently, so strong is custom, indulged in some heathenish comparisons; but we were the truest observers of this sunny day
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I've always moved by my heart. I've moved by the spirit of what I feel was right for me next. I always pray and ask God: 'What's the next thing? What am I supposed to do next?'
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Yes, yes, no one denies, for example, that you're going to be able to fix the Murray through the Living Murray process without money, no one denies that.
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Scientists are always skeptics.
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The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.
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Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.
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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
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The little I knew about my own self wouldn’t have filled a thimble!
