Soledad O'Brien Quotes

At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge. So I'm reading, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I think I'm in literature,' but my life was never like that.

Soledad O'Brien

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I eat a salad every single day. I also have been doing the juice 'thing' after every workout, and I try to drink a half-gallon of water a day.

Jill Wagner

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People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.

John Boyne

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I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album.

Melissa Joan Hart

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While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.

John Moody

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I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

Matthew Goode

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We didn't take Charlize Theron seriously until she did 'Monster' and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful.

Amber Heard

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Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Soichiro Honda

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Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.

Simon Winchester

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Mellowing has never done much for me. You need to keep moving.

Rita Moreno

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I'd love to do another film version of 'Romeo & Juliet.' I'm not too picky as long as it's a good story.

Rutina Wesley

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Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

Michael Moore

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Closing the gun show loophole would be a good thing to do.

Lois Frankel

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