Marian Anderson Quotes

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

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• I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
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  • Remember
  • Author

• The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

  

  Vince Cable
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  • Growth
  • Overcoming

• With the common Iranian threat bringing the Sunni Arab world and Israel closer together, an Israeli-Palestinian peace would go a long way in improving relations and rebuffing Iran's regional ambitions.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • World
  • Long
  • Together

• Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Long
  • Today

• To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.

  

  Ma Jun
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  • China
  • Pollution

• I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
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  • Live

• Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Up
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  • Doing

• If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Life
  • Long
  • Self

• There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.

  

  Carl Honore
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  • Together
  • Food

• I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

  

  Candace Bushnell
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  • You
  • Difficult

• Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.

  

  Manny Montana
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  • Pretty
  • Cool

• Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Important
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  • Man

• Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

  

  Lao Tzu
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  • Violence
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• I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Long
  • True

• I'm open to all kind of scripts. As long as there's enough scope to perform, I'd take up the offer. In fact, before Yuvan and 'TT' happened, I got an opportunity to work with a top actor-director combination. But my height proved to be a setback.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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  • Work
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• It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Long
  • American

• Marriage is a unique cultural relationship that has a long-standing tradition and societal meaning, which should not be redefined by the courts.

  

  James Lankford
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  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.

  

  Lionel Blue
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• 'Project Runway' made my name more high-profile. I've gotten to work with a lot of different celebrity clients that I never would have otherwise.

  

  Chris March
  • Work
  • Different
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• As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

  

  Marian Anderson
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