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 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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I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws... this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it?
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I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time.
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Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.
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When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'
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A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.
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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.
