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2519 Activist Quotes

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

Else Everything Experienced Failing
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You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing.
Laugh Sing Talk You
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There have been great things that happened to me.

Great Happened Things Been
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I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

Album Always Could Make
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People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

Behave Hold Important People
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When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.

Happening Life Like Lot
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You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.

Always Flowers God Grow
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My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

Alone Feel Kid Little
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The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

Better Practice Study Time
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I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

Down Driven Executive Follow
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When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

Certain Emotion Intent Myself
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Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

Away Being Civil Come
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Appearance Being Gives Habit
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Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.

Enjoyed Everything Famous Full
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It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.

Able Anonymous Create Feels
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With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.

Able Every Fame Freedom
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

Rhythm Songwriter Speech Always
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I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.

Among Color Feel Folks
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If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.

Makeup Recognize Saw Without
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Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.

Fashion History Love Makeup
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The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

Ahead Brave Creative Like
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I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

Always Band High Painting
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Approve Brave Business Conduct
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If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

Wall Step Beyond Going
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Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.

Bottom Line Picture Understand
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I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

Blues Dance Jazz Learned
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I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

Alternative Difficulty Figuring Lot
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Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
Bear Benefits Fatigue Great
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I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.

Come Endure Great Line
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Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.

Brain Different Girl Grow
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Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

Authority Fame Figures Finally
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I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.

Another Anyone Ever Everybody
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I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

Arts Business Good Grow
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I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot.

Busy Give Gonna Hoot
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My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

Affect Experience Joyful Learned
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I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

Behave Judge Look Myself
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
Good Hundred More Priests
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Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

All Religions Always Any Established
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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Abolish Act Association Begins
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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Country Good Religion World
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Angels Character God Know
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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Only Possibilities Reason We
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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

Accord Act Bolt Classes
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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Hereditary Ought Planning Posterity
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Acquired Efforts Encourage Endeavor
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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
Consideration Direction Magnitude Taken
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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Horizon Last Liberty Men
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My mind is my own church.
Church Mind My Own Own
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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Approve Business Conduct Conscience
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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Brethren Country Good Mankind
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