Fannie Flagg Quotes
If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.
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In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
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When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.
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I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.
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I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
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There's something nice about the silence of a car ride in the dark, going home. When you were tired of the radio and conversation, and it was okay to just be alone with your thoughts and the road ahead. If you're that comfortable with someone, you don't have to talk.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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Bitterness is so ugly.
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If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.
