Cory Booker Quotes

These false barriers that we've erected of space and race, all these illusions that we've allowed to infect us like toxins, we've got to rid ourselves of that. We are a better nation when we are ultimately united in a common purpose and a common cause.

Cory Booker

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I'd quit my job at a production company and was like, 'I'm going to be a writer...' I became a temp, and it was the mid-nineties, when there was the Internet boom, and the normal group of graduates ready to fill in didn't exist.

Jennifer Konner

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What I wanted to do in talking about basketball in 'Hoop Roots' was retrieve the game as something to participate in, not to watch.

John Edgar Wideman

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If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.

Andrew Rannells

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Not only do the Americans not defend our films, they buy them up just for remakes. It is shameful to kneel at their feet.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

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My concern about Barack Obama is he ran a campaign in 2008 where he said we're going to bring people together and solve big problems. And he specifically talked about the need to reach across the aisle and deal with issues like the economy, which was obviously the top issue in 2008. It has not happened.

Rob Portman

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Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

Ron Paul

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The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature.

Michael Shermer

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My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble; to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.

Missy Elliott

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I'm certainly not Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt.

Jason Statham

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Giving back to the communities and institutions that helped us achieve success is a value we share and a privilege we embrace.

Dinesh Paliwal

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I really can't tell you the feeling I feel, like, being on stage: it's such a high; it's like running a marathon. You just can't get that feeling anywhere else.

Dierks Bentley

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I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Daymond John

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