Ciara (Ciara Princess Harris) Quotes
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States.
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Our pop cultural likes and dislikes are still very segregated, and that is not true of 'Billy on the Street.'
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Like the assassination of JFK, everybody alive then can remember where they were that Doomsday Week of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. That Saturday, 27 October, was, and remains, the closest the world has come to nuclear holocaust - the blackest day of a horrendous week.
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Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must have the intellectual ability to see how bad things are and the emotional ability to look forward with hope. It's a hard combination to sustain, but if you can do it, you can change the world.
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Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.
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As long as I know that I give my best every time, I can sleep well knowing that.
