Alphonso Jackson Quotes

The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.

Alphonso Jackson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 9, 1945

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To ask a pratfall comedian, a dishes-in-the-face comic like me, to lay back and bring none of that stuff to the script because it doesn't call for it? That's tough.

Jerry Lewis

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Me and Future recorded so many songs that as soon as we did 'Honest,' I liked it a lot, but I didn't see it as a single. But he just kept talking about it after we did it like, 'Man, this is big. This is big. It's gonna be a single.'

Metro Boomin

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I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

Sigmar Polke

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I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.

Rufus Wainwright

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My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because I'd much rather be Scottish than English.

Rupert Friend

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Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.

Michael Rosbash

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I was really just too small for football.

Lucas Till

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I've gotta believe that my managing tenure has come to an end here.

Don Cooper

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I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past, and wanting to pretend like it never happened.

Derek Magyar

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Only a spiritual being has awareness.

Chick Corea

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'Saturday Night Live' is a very particular beast. What it celebrates are individuals who can stand out. I did good work there, but going onstage and saying, 'Hey! Hey! Look at me! Aren't I funny?' - that just wasn't my instinct.

Chris Parnell

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In 'The Travelers,' everyone is defined by his or her relationship to work. I put each character on a different rung of the ladder: from the lowliest assistant to a powerful man in the world of media.

Chris Pavone

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