Alicia Garza Quotes
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.
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My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.
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As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
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You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.
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There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.
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A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.
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Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.
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I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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Is the flow of time something real, or might our sense of time passing be just an illusion that hides the fact that what is real is only a vast collection of memories?
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Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.
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Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.
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