Spike Lee Quotes

I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.

Spike Lee

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The risks are 'How country can you go?' rather than 'How rock can you take it?'

Joe Nichols

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Ideas are more powerful than people.

Jim DeMint

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I'm not a real person. I'm a legend.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Maine is the largest producer of wild blueberries in the world. The woody plants occur naturally in the sandy gravel understory of Maine's coastal forests, where little else bothers even trying to grow.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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I know what people think I am. People think I'm dumb. People think I party all the time. People think I'm ignorant.

Michael Beasley

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I've always said that climate change is the defining issue of our generation. I've set out to hold candidates and elected officials accountable and to push our democracy to truly represent the interests of our kids.

Tom Steyer

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I had quite a scattered childhood. I was Irish in London, because I had my secondary school education there. I never really fitted anywhere. I didn't feel it was a negative thing, and I was never made to feel different - I just knew I was.

Ruth Negga

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Man is what he reads.

Joseph Brodsky

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We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men.

William Graham Sumner

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Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

Richard King

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When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake.

Richard Roundtree

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Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Maria Montessori

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