Lucille Clifton Quotes
Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I've never been a partier.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.
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People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile; it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.
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....But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay,Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows,And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:'Fool,' said my Muse to me, 'look in thy heart and write.'
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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
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Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.
