Cynthia McKinney Quotes
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.
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My features are completely ethnic.
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When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all the time, I would say making the Bond movie 'Die Another Day.' To be part of such an iconic franchise and to travel to exotic places - that was the most fun I ever had.
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Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.
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From the preemptive strike that destroyed Egypt's air force during the Six-Day War, to the daring raid on Entebbe, to using all available means to slow the Iranian nuclear program, Israelis have combined strength with ingenuity to keep the country's enemies at bay.
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You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.
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The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
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Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Stout men, not stout walls, make a well-held city.
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You can't be glued in the '60s. Walking around, going up the pub or popping to Tesco in a hunting jacket.
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I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.
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I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing.
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You should remember that I started as a fanboy many years ago; I saw 'A New Hope' more than twenty times in the theater. I saw 'The Empire Strikes Back' nearly thirty times.
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
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Well, I am not afraid of the word 'liberal.'
