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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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You can only do so much theatre.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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One of my officers said to me that Trinidad and Tobago is seen like an ATM card... you come in with the card and you come back out with cash. It cannot happen anymore. It just cannot happen.
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He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
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If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
