Margo Jefferson Quotes
Yes, for blacks, racism functions without the actual presence of whites, just as for whites it functions without the actual presence of blacks! Beliefs, conventions, history do the work.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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There is no one true church.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
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They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.
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Yes, for blacks, racism functions without the actual presence of whites, just as for whites it functions without the actual presence of blacks! Beliefs, conventions, history do the work.
