Lillian Smith Quotes
The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.
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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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We're a competitive family - we compete in everything we do: playing cards; if we're walking down the street, we want to be the first one down the block.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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Many are called but few get up.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.
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The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.
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I'm singing this song for you and your mum that's all,And it won't be long before everyone is gone.
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I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.
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The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.
