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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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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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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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
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I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.
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Overcoming prejudice: the only possible way through love, which creates no graven images.
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One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.
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Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
