Nicole Beharie Quotes

Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who'd put us in the car to watch them. She wanted us to know those things existed.

Nicole Beharie

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I didn't need to be speaker because I needed a fancy title or a big office. I wanted to be speaker so I could lead an effort to deal with the serious issues that are facing our country.

John Boehner

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I think that it's important that we understand the importance of the Hispanic vote in America.

John McCain

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I feel very lucky to have the freedom to do the things I want to do. And as I say, my clients are all my friends as well.

Robert Stigwood

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Businesspeople get a little bit of bad press sometimes. There are a lot of normal and ethical people.

Matthew Stewart

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I have very little interest in the modern world, and I'm not in any way conflicted about that.

Steven Van Zandt

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At school, we'd studied the Romans and the Saxons, and I was fascinated by it all. So I made my dad take me to the British Museum as often as possible.

Tony Bradman

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See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

Robbie Coltrane

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Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.

Ronald Steel

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I think that by creating a world of plenty, by creating institutions and organizations that promote knowledge and promote understanding, I think I could be part of being in a better world.

Michio Kaku

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Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work.

Douglas Rushkoff

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Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

Douglas Wilson

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Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.

Atul Gawande

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