Angela Davis Quotes
I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
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In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
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Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
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I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
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I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.
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I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders.
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You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
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Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.
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I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
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Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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When everyone is running the machine, and it's all working, there's a tendency to look at the short term and focus on incremental opportunities and not look ahead to the really big opportunities.
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Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And in the U.S., the market is never closed for more than three days. The only time the market was ever closed was 9/11. I think it may have been closed the whole week.
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It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.
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Adele's look is meticulously thought through and completely of her own traits. She has such a powerful beauty, such an emotional voice, and the kohl, the hair, everything feels organically molded to her personality.
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My wife cooks. I can't cook. I can remix leftovers pretty good, though.
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I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.
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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together.
