Alicia Garza Quotes
Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
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Everything you've heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn't be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome at the same time. Having someone apologize for no reason actually makes me feel as though I should apologize for their need to apologize.
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This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I work very hard at my game.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.
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If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.
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In our society the most common traumas in women and children occur at the hands of their parents or intimate partners. Child abuse, molestation, and domestic violence all are inflicted by people who are supposed to love you. That knocks out the most important protection against being traumatized: being sheltered by the people you love. If the people whom you naturally turn to for care and protection terrify or reject you, you learn to shut down and to ignore what you feel.
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Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.
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Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe.
