Krista Tippett Quotes

Fear usually looks like anger.

Krista Tippett

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I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.

Jessye Norman

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People that have known me for a while tell me how they see me grown as an artist and as a writer. I think that this comes with continuing writing each day. I try to write as often as I can and explore more while I do it. I feel more comfortable with opening up and telling more of my story to everyone.

Megan Nicole

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When I was in college, I lived in a mostly black, poor neighborhood. That's where I grew up, but I attended a mostly white upper-class school in conservative Mississippi. I was often very aware of how I presented myself.

Angie Thomas

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I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem.

Shirley MacLaine

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So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.

Robert Browning

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Challenging vested interests requires a government's full commitment.

Mo Ibrahim

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You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

Lucy Liu

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The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need: it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden. As kids, we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could.

Jay-Z

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I'll get boxes full of books and objects from perfect strangers in the oddest places. Teachers will send me students' drawings, etc. It's hard to sift through it all.

Donald Baechler

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Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.

Corrine Brown

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No one can pretend to say that a fish is ever killed by heat, for many kinds of fish, in the middle of summer, and in the burning heat of the sun, do either play, as it were, on the surface of the water, or hide themselves under the leaves, weeds, or other substances at the bottom.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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My government is committed to carrying out electoral reforms. It is our firm resolve to keep criminal elements away from power.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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