Ava DuVernay Quotes

There's really no precedent for someone like me gaining clout in the space that I'm in - a black woman directing films in Hollywood.

Ava DuVernay

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There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

John Burdett

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As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Andre Norton

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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Robert Kennedy

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I know my predecessors have written a Green Arrow who has a lot of thoughts about social justice, but that was a more evolved, older, wiser Green Arrow.

Ann Nocenti

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There are many fronts in the fight to make voting easier for all.

Amy Klobuchar

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A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.

Stefano Langone

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I'm the dirtiest of the dirty. I mess up all the time. I suck as a Christian. I can't stand religion. But I love Jesus, and I'm trying.

Sonny Sandoval

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I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

Mike Love

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Fashion is a way you can express yourself, so it's good stuff, you know?

Lucky Blue Smith

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During the Cold War, tensions between the West and the Soviet Union affected virtually all countries worldwide. As a result, throughout Latin America, guerrilla groups emerged, seeking to destabilize military dictatorships and attain democracy, freedom, and policy reform - goals that they believed could not be achieved peacefully.

Juan Manuel Santos

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When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing.

Christina Hendricks

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When I'm asked about legacy, I say it's too early to talk about legacy.

Arlen Specter

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