Angela Davis Quotes

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

Angela Davis

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• Slavery
• Penalty

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• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

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• Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

  

  Usain Bolt
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• For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.

  

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• I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
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• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
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• We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
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• You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
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• You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Problems
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• When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
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• 'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.

  

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  • Play
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• The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
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  • Problems

• Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Done
  • Know
  • Always

• Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.

  

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• I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

  

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• On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.

  

  Nancy Keenan
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• 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

  

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  • Life
  • Ordinary
  • Insult

• I think in general, people are baffled by love and what it does to them and how far they'll go to have love and be loved.

  

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• The first thing I did for TV was a pilot for CBS.

  

  Allison Anders

• I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

  

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• When I am designing, I make a selection of music that will be the inspiration behind the whole collection... I will be blasting that music-it becomes a journey I take in my brain to transfer that sound to the clothing.

  

  Anna Sui
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  • Inspiration
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• Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

  

  Angela Davis
  • America
  • Death
  • Slavery