Martha Reeves Quotes
Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
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Film is pop art. It's not whether it's auteur cinema or not; that's a false distinction. Cinema is cinema.
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Brigitte Bardot is an icon, and her look is timeless. She is seen as one of the most beautiful women of all time. I feel very honored to be compared to her.
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To this day, I haven't felt like I've made it. I'm waiting for them to pull the rug out from under me. I kind of feel like George Plimpton; I'm just experiencing this whole business with the really talented people.
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I hope that my work ethic has been a model for those who do not believe in themselves or have lingering doubts about their own abilities.
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Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.
