Letitia Baldrige Quotes
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For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.
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I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.
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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
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'If you are prepared to die, you are prepared to live.'
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There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.
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Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences.
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I believe more and more that this business is about people. People, people. The idea is to make friends at the retail level, the warehouse level, let people see you exist, can form sentences and have an interest in something other than yourself.
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We all do better when we all do better.
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Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.
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I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic.
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Courage in danger is half the battle.
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I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.
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If you get your body right, you get your mind right, whatever you do, you have a fighting chance, and you have a chance to be victorious.
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Frederick Douglass had charged the air with rebellion and redemption, and these in turn had supported him in the heat of abolitionism. But the atmosphere changed to one of repression after the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.
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There's a very devoted fan base that really loved 'T1' and 'T2' and felt burned by 'T3' and 'T4,' so when we said, 'We're going to do it again!' the reaction was, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa - what do you think you're doing?'
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We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.
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This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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The last thing any sane person wants is a jihad.
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We all have to stand by our life's work as the true test of what we have done for the world.
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Jest with your equals.
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My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.
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"Dark Fantasy" was my long, backhanded apology. You know how people give a backhanded compliment? It was a backhanded apology. It was like, all these raps, all these sonic acrobatics. I was like: "Let me show you guys what I can do, and please accept me back. You want to have me on your shelves."
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I've become a master of the apology.
