Angela Davis Quotes
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I am often in contact with the hareidi public and politicians.
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My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.
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How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.
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Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.
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I feel like my mandate when I was elected was to go reduce the size of government, lower taxes, and increase freedom, and freedom isn't free, and sometimes you have to make a small sacrifice to move forward with what you're after.
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As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
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Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.
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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
