Alicia Garza Quotes
It's hard to be a leader when you have to make hard choices and when you have to do what's right, even though people are not going to like you for it.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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I have learned to be patient.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.
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Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
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I never knew that I'd still be doing this so many years later.
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I'm doing music, and we both want to do some drama.
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It's hard to be a leader when you have to make hard choices and when you have to do what's right, even though people are not going to like you for it.
