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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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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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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What I have realized is I cannot guarantee the absence of discrimination or hatred or prejudice, but I can guarantee the presence of justice.
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I know when something is going to work for me, and I feel when it's not, so I am going to carry that into the music.
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I never really watched much stand-up growing up. I just was not really that into it. But I can say I honestly fell in love with it the second I touched the microphone. It was like this weird thing where it's like, 'Oh, yeah, this is what I'm supposed to do.'
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I've seen straight, partnered women explain their decision to stay at home by noting that childcare would have taken too much out of their paycheck - as if this cost was just theirs to bear!
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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
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Pain is a forcing sieve that turns me to gruel.
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The little I knew about my own self wouldn’t have filled a thimble!
