Angela Davis Quotes
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Dead men tell no tales.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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When I wrote my first book, I was too scared to find out how people got books published. I was convinced that you needed some sort of magical potion that I didn't have.
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Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing.
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I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.
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The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders - who will rule the country for ten years. But we do know they're the first generation of Chinese leaders who have spent the majority of their lives in a China 'opening up' to the rest of the world.
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True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
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There was absolutely no footing I don't know how you could come off the ball or cut. It was like some sort of amusement park ride.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
