Clarke Peters Quotes

My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.

Clarke Peters

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 7, 1952

Topics

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Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

Jesse Jackson

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We did not do a good enough job of taking care of the people who were losing their careers and retraining them into the new economy.

John Hickenlooper

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A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.

Anna Eshoo

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Particularly if you're a good engineer, there's a lot of ways you can make money, but to actually have an impact on the world is rare, and when you find an opportunity for that, it's very special.

Matt Mullenweg

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I called the book 'The Senator Next Door,' not 'The President Next Door.'

Amy Klobuchar

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What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.

Steven Wright

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The Muslim Brotherhood's declaration of war against the United States is real, and the Obama Administration is again asleep at the wheel, continuing a policy of self-destruction.

Trent Franks

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I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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If you see someone on a plane with an eye mask, sleeping, that's probably me, because that's pretty much where I live.

Ronna McDaniel

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One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Loren Eiseley

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I drink iced coffee nearly every morning and many afternoons year-round.

Josh Gondelman

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It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.

Joseph Prince

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