Cynthia McKinney Quotes
African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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You can't live your life through your children.
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Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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I believe that work can be done on security; in combating terrorism in Mexico we have done our part in this area. But at the same time, the world must continue working.
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Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.
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Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
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We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.
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OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.
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I have these long nails, but I literally do nothing to them! The thought of filing my nails drives me insane.
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I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.
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I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.
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As one can ascend to the top of a house by means of a ladder or a bamboo or a staircase or a rope, so diverse also are the ways and means to approach God, and every religion in the world shows one of these ways.
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The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center… in the political sphere… the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism.
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No matter what I go through today, I need not fear. For God is all-powerful and God is here. I am never separate from the One who created me. There is nothing I can do to make Him turn his face away from me. I am loved, I am cared for, and I am totally safe in the arms of God.
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I'm eccentric, what else? I don't know, I've got two people telling me what to say.
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Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation.
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We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.
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African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.
