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J A Baker Inspirational Quotes (75)

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I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know that I was born in St. Louis, thinking I would be very proud to announce it to the public, they gave me the news first. I was then starring in the 'Folies Bergere.'
Josephine Baker
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Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases.
James W. Pennebaker
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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.
James Baker
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There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber of memory.
J. A. Baker
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Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased.
James Baker
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Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.
Josephine Baker
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I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.
John Diefenbaker
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Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.
John Diefenbaker
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To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches from being human, to become in the end capable of nothing, generous or unselfish or sometimes capable of anything, however terrible.
John Austin Baker
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Women are the carriers of life. We hold the fruit of our loving beneath our hearts.
Jeannine Parvati Baker
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My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race... in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many parts of America could become prosperous and recognized in the world.
Josephine Baker
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The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.
John Diefenbaker
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The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.
Josephine Baker
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I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the same thing. But I have loved and believed in art and the idea of universal brotherhood so much, that I have put everything I have into them, and I have been blessed.
Josephine Baker
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Birth is not an emergency. It is simply an emergence.
Jeannine Parvati Baker
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...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty, the freedom to go where one chose if one was held back by one's color? No, I preferred the Eiffel Tower, which made no promises. ~ Josephine Baker, once she had seen the Eiffel Tower
Josephine Baker
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We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage......w e cannot take for granted the continuance and maintenance of those rights and freedoms.
John Diefenbaker
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I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.
Josephine Baker
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I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.
John Diefenbaker
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Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated
James W. Pennebaker
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Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.
James Baker
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I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can't help that I am one of them!
John Diefenbaker
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I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.
Josephine Baker
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Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad.
Jack Baker
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