Leah Ward Sears Quotes

I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.

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• Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
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• I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
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  • Truth

• Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

  

  Jack Hanna
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• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Women
  • Control
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• People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• God forbid that women have fantasies.

  

  E. L. James
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• The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• As a Christian, I view relationships and marriage as being between a man and a woman.

  

  Karen Handel
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  • Marriage

• Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

  

  Hank Ketcham
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• I was the one who was always calling people.

  

  Nancy Reagan
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• Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.

  

  Ralph Waite
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• The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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• I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'

  

  Zack Snyder
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• To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.

  

  Olga Korbut
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• The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Believe
  • Day
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• I love being the villain.

  

  Jane Lynch

• We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

  

  Anna Sewell
  • Feel
  • Animals
  • Suffer

• There are, in fact, apps you can use to measure how many times you check your phone, and I shudder to think how many times I check my phone. I'm sure it would be probably in the hundreds of times that I check over the course of the day.

  

  Franklin Foer

• Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival.

  

  Willard Gaylin
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• I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.

  

  Leah Ward Sears
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