Archibald MacLeish Quotes
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I hate big models.
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My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
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You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
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The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.
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I think that style, taste, and choices in general are forged by everything that surrounds you - everything you see, taste, touch, smell and hear. So of course, my family has influenced me as a person and in my own style, but so have all the experiences that I went through as an individual.
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Festivals are the best because you can't control anything, and for a control freak like me, that's a wonderful experience.
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The only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. It was only really one time.
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The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.
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The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.
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If God is God, he is not good. If God is good, he is not God.
