Anna Julia Cooper Quotes
If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
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We gave the world dab fever!
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Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
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Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.
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Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
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Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.
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If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
