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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Alice Walker

Future, Mother, Woman

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
Samuel Goldwyn

Reason, Wanted, Dead

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.
Fareed Zakaria

Change, Mind, Long

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
Billy Joel

Keep, Sobriety, Drinking

I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
Paris Hilton

Power, Person, Same

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
William Cobbett

Women, Power, Sex

I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.
Tim Tebow

Work, Time, Sunday

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
William Hazlitt

Become, Themselves, Value

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
Solomon Ortiz

Life, Success, Education

I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.
Paula Deen

Funny, Care, Laugh

Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.
Ellen DeGeneres

Woman, Old, Show

Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.
Chris Brown

Dreams, Fun, Sure

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.
Dee Dee Myers

Successful, Powerful, Often

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.
Les Brown

Life, Give, Once

Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough to sleep in, I don't even make it into my pajamas. I'm looking down, and I'm like, 'T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that's fine. It's pajama-y, good night.'
Rebecca Romijn

Good, Tired, Sleep

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Loneliness, Personal, Sea

Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.
Rush Limbaugh

Work, Power, Government

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
Steve Martin

Country, Once, Someday

I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.
Steve Martin

Life, School, Ego

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda

Work, Happy, Same

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
Paul McCartney

Down, Happen, Trying

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.
George W. Bush

Great, Nation, Show

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
Amelia Barr

Love, Power, Common

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
Amelia Barr

Woman, Away, Far

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
Amelia Barr

Men, Treat, Themselves

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.
Gillian Anderson

Work, Time, Yourself

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana

Peace, Religion, Help

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
George Santayana

Good, Nothing, Sacrifices

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
George Santayana

Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.
Richard J. Needham

Strong, Mistakes, Laugh

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