Alice Stone Blackwell Quotes
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Sometimes I, as a public official, turn to Scripture or hymns - especially hymns, because sometimes we Catholics don't have the Scriptures memorized like we should - to help me explain a public policy position or an idea or to be able to articulate it better when you're talking about justice or mercy or compassion.
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In my lifetime, I have seen how greater liberty, greater justice, and greater respect ultimately does prevail, but it prevails only when people are willing to fight for it and willing to lose for it.
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Part of why history is so important in my life is because it brings you an awareness that everything isn't new. It gives context to what's happening right now. History is cyclical but circumstances and technology change. So when social justice topics come up, they're not new. They're just being covered more. We have more ways to record it now.
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Justice and beauty are central to God's new world and should be central to our work. Together they frame the good news of Jesus.
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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
