Constance Baker Motley Quotes
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.
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According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
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This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
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I'm just going to go out there and contribute the best I can.
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We know there needs to be diversity in storytellers telling their own stories. I think there's a beautiful forward movement in that direction with McQueen telling '12 Years A Slave,' with Coogler telling 'Fruitvale,' and with Daniels telling 'The Butler.'
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I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.
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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
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Prediction is a mug's game, but taking the side of water polluters has not been a winning political strategy for 50 years. Presidents Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II all undertook to weaken water regulations in the name of economic growth. They left office; the regulations remained.
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Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
