Effa Manley Quotes
People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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People just get kicks out of making other people sad.
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I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
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Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.
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Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall
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I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.
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I was influenced a lot by my visits to hostels with my mother when I was younger. I learned a lot from it, more so now that I did at the time. My mother used her position very well to help other people, as does my father, and I hope to do the same.
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The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
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To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
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People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.
