Angela Davis Quotes
We took her to see Dorothy Hamill at the Morris (Performing Arts Center), and she was delighted, ... She thought it was awesome.
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. When I graduated, I was doing really well with my music in Malaysia. I had stable income, and I had really good momentum in the music industry, so I had to make a decision whether to stop that and continue being a lawyer.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
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I don't run behind authority.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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I'm very active, wild woman.
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me – but the process of actually crafting it is essential.
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Youku Tudou has helped transform how media and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed since our inception.
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My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
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I started playing the ukulele in the year 2000. That sounds so futuristic saying it like that. The year 2000.
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Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.
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The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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I was bullied by a freshman named Jeanine. She was black and supremely racist. Jeanine used to say, 'Brownie, go back to your country. You smell of curry,' or 'Do you smell curry coming?'
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The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
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We took her to see Dorothy Hamill at the Morris (Performing Arts Center), and she was delighted, ... She thought it was awesome.
