Angela Davis Quotes
I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
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I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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D.C.'s a tough place to get love unless you're from D.C. It's like everybody hates you here. The only black person that everyone can agree on is Obama.
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Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
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Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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Liberals believe that they can't get a fair shake from the media anymore.
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I believe that to get what you want as a woman is to use your brain, to have a job, and to not need someone or have to make decisions based on that.
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I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.
