Linda Chavez Quotes
For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.
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I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.
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A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine - it's everyone's. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was tired of that anal control that I have over novels.
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I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men.
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I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
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Esmerelda, the grieving widow, continues to burn and scream. In our minds we rush to save her from the consuming flames. But cannot.
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For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.
