Alveda King Quotes
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.Alveda King
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Umberto Eco -
I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
Gail Sheehy -
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor -
I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
Karen Allen -
I don't like controversy.
Sammy Sosa
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
Laura Prepon -
I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
Dan Stevens -
Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
Zainab Salbi -
The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
Ed Royce -
The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
Hamid Karzai -
I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.
Naomi Campbell
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos -
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
Kate Beckinsale -
All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
Barney Ross -
Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I will run against anybody.
Usain Bolt -
Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.
Marshall McLuhan -
I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.
Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire -
I've been acting since I was 5, literally since I could walk, and I've always said, 'I think one day I have to be in a fat suit.'
Kaley Cuoco -
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.
Joanne Rowling -
How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!
Morgan Freeman -
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
Alveda King