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To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.
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People
Living
Pleasure
We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.
Holly Near
Truth
Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.
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Women
Will
Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.
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Artist
Being
Hurt
Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.
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Time
Care
Content
Open
Space
Thinking
People love to hear the mistakes you've made.
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Love
People
Mistakes
The war on drugs is a war against the communities.
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War
Drugs
The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.
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Women
World
To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.
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Pain
Sensitivity
State
Wonder
You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.
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People
Pretty
When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.
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Hope
Songs
When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.
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State
Students
When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.
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Opportunity
Mistakes
White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.
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Men
People
Journey
Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
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People
Killing
Wrong