Lucille Clifton Quotes
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
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I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
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One of the first drawings I did in Paris - I wasn't thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or other, I kept drawing - I bought a hyacinth flower with a lot of leaves, just to make me feel like spring.
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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
