Roberta Flack Quotes

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

Roberta Flack

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When you make a stance, sometimes there are consequences.

Andre Ward

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I do feel like I'm a tomboy at heart, so I have an easy time working with guys.

Amy Smart

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My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

Amy Tan

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I call it dark energy. If you are unreliable, customers just disappear.

Travis Kalanick

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White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress.

Robin DiAngelo

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We face paired dangers. The first is that our networks are successfully attacked. The second is that our fear of attack will cause us to destroy what makes the Internet special.

Jonathan Zittrain

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I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what were the secondary trials of pain to the enfeebled, suffering body when daily was administered the soul's medicine and food!

Dorothea Dix

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If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.

David Soul

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Robotic toys can be very interesting, but it is important that the toy not 'dictate' how the child should play with it. Rather, it should take its cues from the child and enhance, teach, and enrich the play experience. We incorporated some of these features into a robotic baby doll we built for Hasbro in 1999.

Colin Angle

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There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

Chuck Close

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This illusion that a lower class has less intelligence than a higher class is a complete fake-out.

Anohni

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It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

William Graham Sumner

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