I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.
Sidney Poitier
Recitation: by Male by Female
Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones.
Joe Bastianich
GreatMoneyValueNegativeFinding
In some neighborhoods, if you want to walk down the streets, you've got two choices - look down, or look hard.
Andrew Vachss
WalkChoicesYouLookDownWant
Sharpton and Jackson are 'race brokers.' Their job is to define black identity and then keep blacks in line to vote to the highest Democratic bidder that serves their purposes. 'Black enough' is just another tool in the bamboozler's toolbox.
Angela McGlowan
JobIdentityBlackEnoughVoteRace
With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to new places.
Amitava Kumar
StruggleImaginationYouNewDesire
A touring band is a family and a workplace at the same time, and you're living with people you didn't necessarily choose every day for up to a year.
Stacey D'Erasmo
FamilyTimeDayPeopleYearChoose
Being a rapper as a woman is not a good thing in Afghanistan. I kind of put my life in danger whenever I go somewhere to talk about women's rights or make music, rap, or have interviews.
Sonita Alizadeh
LifeGoodWomenMusicWomanMy Life
The colonists' first protest against the British unfolded on Aug. 14, 1765 at the Liberty Tree. A magnificent elm towering over the other trees nearby, the Liberty Tree stood at the corner of what is now Washington and Essex Streets in downtown Boston.
Ronald Kessler
TreeTreesLibertyNowWashington
You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake.
Michael Tilson Thomas
PeopleLanguageFeelTryingYouDid
I would like to be taller, thinner and more rakish looking.
Michael Sheen
LookingMoreWouldLikeTaller
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Joseph Conrad
WorkArtLineCarryJustification
Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
Bob Uecker
BaseballWho Am IWithoutWhereWho
At 17, I wanted to be a rock star.
Anthony McCarten
Rock StarRockStarWanted
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