Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'
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When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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Not always trainers, but if I don't have to, I don't wear high heels. It's really just if something looks good on me, I'm going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel... I'm going to buy it.
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You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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There's no family in America that can celebrate a victory better than the Harbaughs. You'll never hear more laughter, more storytelling, or more embellishment.
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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.
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For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.
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Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.
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The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
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The disconnect between what people think and what the political leaders are actually doing is something that we really need to start raising.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'
