Coretta Scott King Quotes
If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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The culture of philanthropy is alive and very well in Africa. International aid strengthens and extends it, but in the communities where I have spent time, it is all-pervasive.
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Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
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Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
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It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.
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If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
