Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us?
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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In Washington, D.C., in 2006, Democrats had long since given up on the war in Iraq in terms of any tangible political support for it. The new factor was the Republicans were beginning to give up as well, and they were truly challenging the strategy and the lack of success.
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Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.
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You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.
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I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.
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Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.
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A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.
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I'm lucky to have been blessed with a great family and a wonderful Christian wife.
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If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
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Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.
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Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
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Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.
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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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I don't think about being undefeated; I don't think about what people say in the media about me, whether it's good or bad; I just don't think of it.
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An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I'm not too familiar with the geography of nineteenth century London, for instance, but I still enjoy reading Dickens.
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We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us?
