Angela Davis Quotes
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.
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I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting.
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When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.
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I have jeggings to wear and worlds to conquer.
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A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.
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I have a small studio set up in my house in Athens. I'll wake up, have a nice breakfast, and I won't surface until dinnertime. I'm very domesticated in that way.
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The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances.
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I meet people from different walks of life that I can have relationships with.
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We strongly believe that individual advocates play an important role in developing a civil society.
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Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.
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I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.
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I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.
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If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.
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Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature.
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This is how I feel about the LGBT community: they are people just like us.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
