Roberto Firmino Quotes

I have suffered racial prejudice, and I know how painful it is. People need to take this issue more seriously and engage in this fight against racism.

Roberto Firmino

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RacismFightPeopleKnowSeriously

I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color.

Jidenna

MotherColorAmericaWhiteNever

With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just don't have that luxury. I have a babysitter for three hours a day, which is how long I have to write.

Sofia Coppola

TimeDayWritingLuxuryLongThree

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

Tom Stoppard

GovernmentDemocracyVotingCounting

I feel like we have a duty as fighters to try and be a better example.

Rose Namajunas

BetterFeelDutyTryLikeFighters

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

Ron Kind

PowerDiversityPeopleBlackAmerica

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

GreatPeopleStartYouCareerYoung

When you wish upon a star, you just might become one.

Paula Abdul

WishYouBecomeStarMightJust

I loved 'Sex in the City' - my God, I watched every one.

Sharon Maguire

GodCityLovedSexEveryWatched

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

Richard Powers

YouCreateLinesCodeFewOrganism

I have mental illness in my family. I have a lot of compassion for those people.

Mark Ruffalo

FamilyCompassionPeopleIllnessLot

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.

Kevin Smith

WorkReligionPeopleYouAnything

There does seem to be in the U.S. now an ideology and an entrenchment that has stopped people doing what they are hired to do, which is govern rather than run for office the whole time.

Kevin Spacey

TimePeopleDoingNowRunOffice

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