Ann Hood Quotes
After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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Reading is the heart of learning, and Illinois and the nation are in the literacy emergency room showing a flat line on the education EKG. The state's results clearly demonstrate that we still are not doing what is needed to help these older students build the reading skills they will need to deal with increasingly complex high school courses.
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I hate that thing that if you are over 45, and you're going to be on telly or make films, you have to do all this stupid stuff to your face. I would no more let someone stick a needle in my forehead than fly to the moon.
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After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience.
