Anna Julia Cooper Quotes
One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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I don't think the Republicans care much about minorities.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
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God is in the details.
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Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
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One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
