Cynthia McKinney Quotes
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.
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The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.
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When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.
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I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world.
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I like the ethos of the military and the idea of joining an institution in which, at the very least, everyone who signs up believes in something.
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Some people have these small, positive schemes for survival, a kind of strength that I am attracted to, maybe because I'm prone to the blues.
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It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.
