Andra Day Quotes
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I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it.
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My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.
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I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.
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I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back.
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There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.
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He Simon Cowell is actually very lovely in real life. We share the same interests, and he shares my love for animals as well.
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In the subconscious fantasies that make conception look so alluring, it is often ourselves that we would like to see live forever, not someone with a personality of his own.
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Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn't be finished until their grandson was born.
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The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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We gave up everything just to sit at your table.
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When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave—one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.
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As my face got cleaner, my relationships got cleaner.
