Angie Thomas Quotes

We see organizations that target young black men to give them direction in life, but so often, black girls are missed. I wanted to represent them.

Angie Thomas

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I know I'm not an anti-Semitic person.

Jim Caviezel

PersonKnowAnti-Semitic

I've always been really nationalistic, and I had a brother killed in Korea. And I think the 'Star Spangled Banner,' even today - and I've heard it a heckuva lot of times, OK - has always been a significant feeling to me.

Jerry West

TodayBrotherMeThinkFeelingStar

If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.

Jesse Eisenberg

MedicalSchoolDoctorYouActing

As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog Xenopus laevis.

John Gurdon

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Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.

Jeff Bridges

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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

Jean de La Fontaine

MottoManDieSufferRatherThan

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

John Searle

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Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

Tom Holt

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Fashion has underscored the interchangeability of men for a long time, maybe from the outset.

Rumaan Alam

TimeMenFashionLongLong Time

Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother taught me how to shuffle cards.

Rosecrans Baldwin

GoodParentsMeBehaviorCardsOut

I would always stand up for women, but I don't want women's rights and all that sort of thing. I love to have men around, and I suppose if you're a true feminist, you get on and do it yourself. I love it when someone says, 'I'll get your coat' or, 'I'll look after you', or offers you a seat on the bus. I'm thrilled to bits. I'm not a feminist.

Mary Berry

LoveWomenMenYourselfStand Up

Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.

Michel Onfray

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