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Cynthia McKinney Quotes

Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to 'sit down and shut up' over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.

Cynthia McKinney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 17, 1955

Topics

Truth Silence People Voice Truth Is

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

Mistake Sympathy Think Someone Try

When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.

Life Me Book My Life You Look

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

Meghan O'Rourke

Time Death Goodbye Long You Say

When I am up in Paris then the restaurant which has remained my favourite for the past decade is Guy Savoy. The menu is huge, sophisticated and very creative but I keep to simple choices.

Simple Past Creative I Am Choices

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

Daughter School Important Teachers

I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

Mind Theatre Face Feel Doing Year

I get offered loads of unusual stuff. I just don't do loads because I like staying at home a lot, and I'm a little bit lazy. I don't get that thing of going from film to film that people do. It would drive me nuts, and that level of fame is quite scary.

Home People Me Drive Fame Lazy

As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I'm still performing at 50, it's because I'll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them.

Robbie Williams

Think I Can Pay Because Performing

If you've got a corporation, and you throw out one of the founding partners that is responsible in part for making the organization what it is today, you have to compensate that person. You have to come to a settlement.

Today Organization You Person Out

I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

Child Never Because Raise How

Who I am as a father is far more important to me than the public perception.

Father I Am Me Perception Important

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

Good Day World Black Cloud Nothing

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