Angela Davis Quotes
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I don't drink coffee.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.
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Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.
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Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.
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I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change.
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
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When the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, I was on vacation in the Cayman Islands.
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You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
