Louis Leakey Quotes
The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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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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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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Death always seems to be around me.
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People used to think of me as a comedy actor.
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It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.
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September 11 was horrific, but I've been through enough crises before that I had my own pattern as to how to collect facts, what a leader should do, how to communicate with people, how to set up operating mechanisms to work our way through it.
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People look at me, and they don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal. I always thought I'd be the white person in a black play.
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The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.
