Elizabeth Flock Quotes
May 2 is traditionally the National Day of Prayer, a government-designated religious event intended to encourage people to 'turn to God in prayer and meditation.'
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Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
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You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.
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The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
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Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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New York offers people the anonymity to be themselves without judgment.
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I was angry and frustrated when I was younger and didn't know my place in the world.
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I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.
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There were internal critics, sharp critics, who were very opposed to [Malcolm X], and who were very - some of them were members of Elijah Mohammad's family, such as Herbert Mohammad, Raymond Shareef, who was the head of the Fruit of Islam, the brother-in-law of - the son-in-law of Elijah Mohammad. They isolated Malcolm X and kept him out of the newspaper of the organization Mohammad Speaks for over a year, which is kind of curious.
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Don't be ridiculous. Heritage does not equal destiny.
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May 2 is traditionally the National Day of Prayer, a government-designated religious event intended to encourage people to 'turn to God in prayer and meditation.'
