Lucille Clifton Quotes
All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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MoMA is one of the world's most admired cultural institutions.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the horizon to disappear for a time; nor as if they had been overcome by other gods of greater power and profounder knowledge. It is simply that they came to nothing.
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You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.
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My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.
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All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.
