Cynthia McKinney Quotes
Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to 'sit down and shut up' over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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I personally don't think you should ever date someone you work with, will work with, etc. I won't ever date an actor.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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I feel like anything I've ever done, I've been strongly advised not to do.
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But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
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I could go speak to people for the next three years every day if I wanted to, but I'm not going to make my child do that.
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If there's ever any point in my life where I could meet Jennifer Aniston, I think that'd be pretty incredible!
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From the first audition on stage, I knew I loved acting.
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Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to 'sit down and shut up' over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.
