America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
Jesse Jackson
Recitation: by Male by Female
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.
Maya Angelou
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By creating a context of pressure, I can exact more preciseness, more brilliance. It's just as if coal is subjected to enormous pressure, you can get a diamond.
John J. McLaughlin
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I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person's life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders.
Jeff Kinney
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'City Is Mine' was a real big video for me and a good opportunity to learn how to play out a scene.
Steve Carr
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I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.
Lorraine Toussaint
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Sound has always followed me. A lot of reggae when mum was cooking. I'd write songs with my dad or play him anything I'd worked on.
Jorja Smith
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People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.
Jon Favreau
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A part of me looks at life from a dismal perspective, not unlike Woody Allen and Larry David. But I don't want to look at life like that. It's bad enough that I have to think it. What works for me is writing against that view. There is God, there is love, there is greatness, there is a plan, and there is beauty.
Corbin Bernsen
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It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.
Ali MacGraw
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I have very often held a view - and I am public about it - that if you run your operations inefficiently, you can't expect your consumer to pay for your inefficiencies.
Piyush Goyal
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People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks - but then they aren't in the game when the markets are doing well.
Suze Orman
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Showing just the dark side doesn't always work. The important thing is to show what we can learn from dark things, what good we find there.
Svetlana Alexievich
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