bell hooks Quotes
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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Too clever is dumb.
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The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.
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There is no way of being almost funny or mildly funny or fairly funny or tolerably funny. You are either funny or not funny and there is nothing in between. And usually it is the writer who thinks he is funny and the reader who thinks he isn't.
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I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.
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I bought a Stella McCartney jacket in Salt Lake City. It's nice. It looks like a pea coat. I love Stella's stuff, so wherever I go in the world, I will always go in and buy her stuff.
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The key is to accept what is and not allow yourself to be jerked between likes and dislikes, attachments and aversions. Accept what is, right now, whether it’s comfortable or painful.
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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.