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Maynard Jackson Quotes

If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?

Maynard Jackson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 23, 1938 - June 23, 2003

Topics

Opportunity Action Plan You Playing

I felt very calm and controlled. That's what you've got to feel and do when it's time to win. It's easy to say, hard to do.

Time Win Calm Feel Easy You

I'm 99 today and I'll be 100 tomorrow. It's another day.

Today Day Tomorrow Another Day

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

People Trying You Well Whole

The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the bills, or you are scraping together your own resources and taking out loans, or a scholarship is making college possible.

Stanley Hauerwas

Together Parents College Christian

'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.

Change People Think Magic Asking

Robert Herring had enough trust in me to think I could carry my own show.

Trust Me Think Enough My Own Own

Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.

Rodney Dangerfield

Dog Pet Egypt Him Room Call

I struggled with working with producers because no one openly wanted to give me a chance to rap on their beats. That's just honest talk. No one really wanted to take that risk.

Me Chance Risk Talk Honest Rap

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

Holiday Jazz Way Through Era Ella

The building I most admire is the Doges Palace in Venice, both by day and by night. Looking at it from the lagoon, it resembles a floating kilim carpet. I love all the bridges which connect houses, people, gardens and palaces. I also love moats to isolate yourself. A ha-ha for secrecy, as in every English country garden.

Love Day Yourself People Building

There were three causes that accounted for the proclamation of martial law in Poland. First it was the progressing economic ruin of the country. Second, it was the decomposition of the functioning of the state. And third, a threat of a civil war.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

War Law Country Three First Ruin

I applaud President Obama's decision to begin a partial withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan. However, I believe that we must go further and have a full withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops.

Susan Bysiewicz

Decision Believe Go I Believe Begin

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