Chief Joseph Quotes

I want the white people to understand my people.

Chief Joseph

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: leader
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: March 3, 1840 - September 21, 1904

Topics

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You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.

Jimmy Iovine

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There is no excuse for violence. There is never a justification for anyone to impose themselves on someone else. And it will always be incorrect when it comes to a man and a woman, regardless of what might have happened. You need to be man enough to take the blow. That is always the best way. Do not put your hands on a woman.

Jim Brown

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If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.

John Mellencamp

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Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn't financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.

Robert Kiyosaki

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Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it.

Maurice Greene

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It sounds awful and sort of goody two-shoes, but I never eat between meals.

Ruth Rendell

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Learning to read, for the brain, is a lot like an amateur ringmaster first learning how to organise a three-ring circus. He wants to begin individually and then synchronise all the performances. It only happens after all the separate acts are learned and practised long and well.

Maryanne Wolf

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St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

Rowan Williams

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Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

Molly Parker

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I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

Lou Gehrig

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These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.

Douglas Tompkins

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I've kind of seen that I'm capable to push these guys.

Denis Shapovalov

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