Alicia Garza Quotes
I don't even know what a hashtag is. You don't turn a hashtag into a movement - people turn things into a movement.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
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Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
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I'm the only gay person my parents know.
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People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.
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What really made me a performance artist was that I was able to step back and assess. I've always had [that ability], but it was coming to an understanding.
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I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.
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I don't even know what a hashtag is. You don't turn a hashtag into a movement - people turn things into a movement.
