"We owe the government taxes. We owe our……" — Anna Deavere Smith
"We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us?"
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85 Quotes by Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith has 85 quotes on this site.
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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.
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The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are…
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
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We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession.…
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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would…
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My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way…
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Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going…
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Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is…
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Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught…
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More Creditors Quotes
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one of 63 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them:…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
— Benjamin Franklin
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People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers,…
— Akira Mori
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I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable…
— Stuart Chase
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In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and…
— Bartholomew Roberts
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RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund…
— Unknown Author
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Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the…
— Charles Dickens
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There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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