Dennis Banks Quotes

#1. I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people.

Penny Marshall

#2. Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

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#3. When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

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#4. It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.

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#5. Memories are powerful that way. They can bring back to another place and time and make them laugh or cry all over again.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#6. In 1967 the last Unity Caravan was held.

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#7. In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.

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#8. My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God
then having it taken away, forever.

Glen Duncan

#9. One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

Diana Gabaldon

#10. Every man should see the birth of his children.

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#11. The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.

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#12. Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

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#13. More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television ... because you are supplying just about everything ... you're a creator.

Margaret Atwood

#14. The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.

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#15. Just where do you think you are going, Arya?' the septa demanded.
Arya glared at her. 'I have to go shoe a horse,' she said sweetly taking a brief satisfaction in the shock on the septa's face.

George R R Martin

#16. To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

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#17. The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.

Ilya Prigogine

#18. I want to be the most durable person on the planet.

Jaden Smith

#19. It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.

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#20. If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

Alan Patrick Herbert

#21. In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.

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#22. Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.

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#23. I have a Father's Day every day.

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#24. So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements.

Brian Boitano

#25. Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.

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#26. Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.

Lewis Mumford

#27. I'm on this road for the rest of my life.

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#28. I went to Mexico for three months after college and studied Spanish there. And I went to Cuba and studied at the University of Havana. I loved studying in other countries.

Andrea Navedo

#29. Only you can make your dreams come true ...or not.

Gavin Mills

#30. And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

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#31. 'Senna' took five years, 'Amy' took three years. You try and say, 'Look, there's no deadline.' That's important. Just saying, 'We've got to make the film. And once the film's ready, it will be out there.'

Asif Kapadia

#32. When we arrived in Japan in 1988, we were not prepared for the overwhelming support shown to us.

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