Tim Wise Quotes

Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons.

Tim Wise

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Usually when I am in a movie that is about to come out, if people don't love it, that is fine - I can handle it.

Melanie Lynskey

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I did a lot of sitcoms, and being funny isn't about being beautiful. Usually, beautiful people aren't the funny people.

Maura Tierney

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Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.

John Shadegg

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I realised how much misdirection is in stunt co-coordinating. It's similar to magic, the tricks we use to make people think the stunt is real. I also have a lifelong fascination with gambling cheats. I'm not one, but I do have a fascination with it.

Steve Truglia

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My dad worked three jobs and was a teacher. My mother was a teacher's aid, making, like, $3 an hour. My father went on to get his master's and became active in all these minority engineering programs. And my mother started running for public office. All that happened after the kids were adults. But I'm insanely proud of them.

Robin Thede

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Prior to my call to the Twelve, I served as a medical doctor and surgeon.

Russell M. Nelson

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You learn from mistakes.

Diane Abbott

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I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

Cornelia Funke

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As far as I could tell, I was the first person anywhere in my family tree to go to university.

Clive Granger

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We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw.

Brian Clough

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I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Brene Brown

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Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

Bradley Whitford

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