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If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.


Alice Walker

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PETER SINGER If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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MITCH MCCONNELL Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize - and sometimes you have to cau...
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BHAWANA JAIN If you ask me, people in hell just scream to hear their own voice and to pass time.
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YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
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HARRY YOU You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' A...
L'WREN SCOTT If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you k...
P. J. O'ROURKE You have a plantation where you have 10 white people and you have about 50 or 60 black people. The a...
ALDIS HODGE When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move int...
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JOSE GARCES If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan...
JIM ROHN I see a lot of actors that are doing things to please their coaches, their teachers in the past. The...
TERRY CREWS I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others w...
ERIC FISCHL If you get good ratings, they'll cover you even if you have nothing to say.
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MICHAEL CAINE If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't b...
NOEL GALLAGHER It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They h...
DOUGLAS ADAMS You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.
BENJAMIN WALKER If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding...
JEFFREY JONES It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have han...
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STEVE BURNS If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.
ODETTE ANNABLE You were blackout drunk the night before if you wake up and have no idea where you are and why.
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DANA BRUNETTI People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're...
MICHEL GONDRY When you're on TV and in people's houses - it's great that anybody watches anything you&...
NICHOLAS HOULT If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the go...
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REBECCA HALL If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.
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DANIEL KAHNEMAN If you look at the current issue, they have an article by Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin. I'm not s...
MARTIN WALKER When you go to a voice-based interaction, you can't tell people, 'Ask me this question and s...
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel...
GELSEY KIRKLAND Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will t...
AMITABH BACHCHAN When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.
BRUNO TONIOLI I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste o...
ELMORE LEONARD If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where yo...
EDDIE REDMAYNE If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ...
GLORIA STEINEM One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately...
DENIS LEARY When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object....
JENNETTE MCCURDY You fixed yourself. You didn’t need me.”

“No, Sydney.” My voice was ragged. “I ...
RICHELLE MEAD Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that ...
LARRY DAVID I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off ...
AL GREEN Everybody you work with has their own voice, and if you do your job well enough, even their closest ...
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DAMON LINDELOF My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act f...
SAUL ALINSKY As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book....
TIBOR FISCHER Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
SALVADOR DALI No place of grace for those who avoid the face
No time to rejoice for those who walk among nois...
T.S. ELIOT Nowadays you don't need to be a senator or a CEO or a celebrity to have a voice in the media, an...
BERNIE SANDERS You have no idea of the people I didn't marry.
ARTIE SHAW As you get better and better working out, there's no one who can keep up with you running. If yo...
GEORGE FOREMAN You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they wa...
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ALICE WALKER A grown child is a dangerous thing.
ALICE WALKER People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always ...
ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my c...
ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
ALICE WALKER And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some people...
ALICE WALKER A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is th...
ALICE WALKER Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the up...
ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo...
ALICE WALKER I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly dama...
ALICE WALKER The longer I am a writer--so long now that my writing finger is periodically numb--the better I unde...
ALICE WALKER Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER