Coleman Young Quotes
There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.
Quotes to Explore
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
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I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
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I have much greater faith in the governor and the state legislature to craft a Medicaid system that is going to be the best fit for the people of Georgia rather than someone in Washington dictating it.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.
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The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost.
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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A house o' women is as dead as a house wi' no fire, to my thinkin'. I'm not a spider as likes to corner myself. I like a man about, if he's only something to snap at.
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There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.
