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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Demands Denies Friend Grow Person Right Silence Who Your

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The demands of the Civil Rights era weren't limited to voting rights - they strove for an end to segregation in all aspects of life, including housing, employment, and public accommodations.

~Alicia Garza

Topics: Aspects Civil Civil Rights Demands Employment End Era Housing Including Life Limited Public Rights Segregation Voting Voting Rights Were

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I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends's houses with a list of demands. 'OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job.'

~Allison Williams

Topics: Allowed Asleep Come Demands Friends Guys Home Houses Job List Ok Old Only Public Television Until Watch Would Wrong Years You You Guys

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Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.

~Alvar Aalto

Topics: Architecture Creative Creative Work Demands Develop Develops Everything Fish Fully Grown Ideas Just More Need Other Spawn Takes Than Time Too Work World

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I don't believe in inspiration at all. We live in a world that demands explanation. And fiction has the capability to offer explanations for things.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Believe Capability Demands Explanation Explanations Fiction Inspiration Live Offer Things World

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Gymnastics demands so much of our time. We train all week and travel and compete on weekends. The people you're surrounded by really become your second family, your best friends, your sisters. My coach was like a second mother for me.

~Amanda Borden

Topics: Become Best Coach Compete Demands Family Friends Gymnastics Like Me Mother Much Our Our Time People Really Second Sisters Surrounded Time Train Travel Week Weekends You Your

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Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

~Amitabh Bachchan

Topics: Able Action Actor Because Bit Comedy Dance Demands Emotional Film Format Forms Good Good Actors Greater Hollywood Indian Just Just One Many Need Our Perform Say Singing Stories Than Ways

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With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.'

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Able Accounting Always Being Calculus Child Contracts Demands Ears Education Firmly Hands He Hear Parent Prep Public Public Schools Says Schools Shake Spanish Special Special Education Standardized Statistics Study Test Want Write

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Even if actors ask for more money, will producers fulfill their demands? They might just show us the door.

~Amruta Khanvilkar

Topics: Actor Ask Demands Door Even Fulfill Just Might Money More Producers Show Us Will

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Our daily habits of driving, drilling, buying and supporting all of the economic benefits a free economy demands has cost us dearly, but none more so than for the people of Shishmaref.

~Amy J. Berg

Topics: Benefits Buying Cost Daily Dearly Demands Drilling Driving Economic Economy For The People Free Habits More None Our People Supporting Than Us

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