Margo Jefferson Quotes

Privilege is provisional. It can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly, and summarily withdrawn.

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• And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Doubt

• E-Verify is a very commonsense reform that we can implement here in the state of Florida. I think I share a lot of Floridians' frustration that it didn't pass and a lot of the politics that were taking place behind the scenes.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Think
  • Politics
  • Frustration

• I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Life
  • Follow

• All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Travel
  • Learn

• Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Free
  • Know
  • Slavery

• There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Together
  • Better

• As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Actor

• I do really silly dancing. I love dancing, but I'm not cool when I dance. It's not about my moves, it's not about how cool I am, it's not about how slick I look on the dance floor, it's about having a great time.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Time
  • Cool
  • Dance

• Flash content is the most prolific content on the web today; it is the way people express themselves on the Internet.

  

  Gary Kovacs
  • People
  • Today
  • Internet

• I want to score in every game and win things. That's the most important thing.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Important
  • Game
  • Want

• I can give you a definite perhaps.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • You
  • Give
  • I Can

• I just can't do heels any more. At least not when I'm working. I travel a lot.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Travel
  • Working
  • Heels

• Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Thought
  • Now
  • Independence

• But I come here today, Berlin, to say complacency is not the character of great nations.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Character
  • Today

• War is what happens when language fails.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • War

• So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.

  

  Linda Vester
  • Road

• Live a life of grace. You'll be a better person for it, and so will your children.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• All of us salute the ITU's excellent work in the telecommunications space. It has set standards which encourage investment in infrastructure and ensure that a call made from Europe or America connects smoothly in Kenya or anywhere in the world.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • World
  • Work
  • America

• True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we've expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • People
  • True
  • Support

• You have to think about storytelling over the long haul: what is going to engage an audience for, potentially, years and how characters can become deeply involving for an audience.

  

  Jeremy Podeswa
  • Long

• I've always been quite an insecure person.

  

  Ronan Keating Boyzone
  • Person
  • To Be
  • Insecure

• We went to church twice a week. My parents were employed in ministry; we prayed before dinner. We rollerbladed in the summer. We were allowed to watch the 'Simpsons.' I fought with my younger brother over Legos.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Parents
  • Church
  • Brother

• Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • People
  • Change
  • Desire

• Privilege is provisional. It can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly, and summarily withdrawn.

  

  Margo Jefferson