Aja Naomi King Quotes
Diversity is such an interesting word. I feel like when people hear the word 'diversity,' they think that it means only people of color, when in reality, diversity is all-inclusive; it means everyone.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.
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We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful.
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What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
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I get to play with great friends and a great crew, every day, blowing stuff up and saying evil lines. You can't complain about that.
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The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.
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Diversity is such an interesting word. I feel like when people hear the word 'diversity,' they think that it means only people of color, when in reality, diversity is all-inclusive; it means everyone.
