Margaret Walker Quotes
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.
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When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill it. And you have to find how to make that form say what you want to say. But what you find, always--I think any poet who's worked in form will agree with me--is that the form leads you to what you want to say.
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Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
