Susan Burton Quotes

Unless we address those that are leaving prisons, we can't begin to repair the damage of mass incarceration and make our communities whole and healthy once again.

Susan Burton

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I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.

Jim Parsons

IntelligenceThinkSexyYouStuck

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Johannes Brahms

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Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example.

John Boyle O'Reilly

ChangeTimeJusticeMenPolitics

My dad kicked me out of the house when I was 18. I was supposed to go to community college. I wasn't really into going because I wanted to do stand-up, and he felt I was wasting my time.

Jermaine Fowler

CommunityTimeCollegeMeHouseGo

Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.

Jennifer Aniston

ActingKnowWantWillMoreYears

You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em - that's how you write a song. And I haven't been able to do that over here 'cause I'm so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music.

Mel Tillis

MusicYourselfI AmPeopleSongYou

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

Amy Winehouse

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Therapy is not a 'white thing.' It's a clinical thing.

Rosie Perez

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If you can make a lot more of something, you can make it much more inexpensive.

Mary Lou Jepsen

YouMoreSomethingMakeMuchLot

As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

Brad Sherman

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Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?

Arna Bontemps

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I don't think anybody, actor or marine, is ever going to enjoy boot camp. It certainly wasn't at all enjoyable. Informative and educational, yes, but it was pretty tortuous.

Ashton Holmes

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