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Leonard Boswell Quotes

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.

Leonard Boswell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 10, 1934 - August 17, 2018

Topics

Opportunity Time Equality People

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

Community Time College Me House Go

In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.

Megan Smith

Team Early IBM Diverse

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Angela Davis

Time Racism Kind More Hidden Same

Most guys open their closet and tend to wear about 10% of what they own - and they wear that 10% over and over again. So the trick is to be honest with yourself and figure out what that 10% is.

Michael Bastian

Yourself Over Open Out Honest Own

Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.

Michael Dirda

Home Culture Reading Self Escape

The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.

John Pearson

Time Sadness Principal More Text

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Fear Myself Think Feel Others First

It is, of course, true that I have given priority to the settling of the problem of security and the problem of Irian Barat, although I knew that in order to do these things, almost three-quarters of our national product had to be spent.

Sukarno

Problem Security True Product Things

You can tell on-stage when a joke's starting to lose its pop. It doesn't mean people don't want to hear it anymore; it means I don't want to do it anymore. Because I want to move on to something that has a knee-jerk reaction just like you get when you tell somebody a joke that they've never heard.

Ron White

People You Lose Move On Want Never

One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.

Rush Limbaugh

Politics Long Play Insanity Genuine

I believe that the truest parts of people can be buried, and for many different reasons.

Mary Gaitskill

People Believe I Believe Different

I think cooking is really key because it's the only way you're going to take back control of your diet from the corporations who want to cook for us. The fact is, so far, corporations don't cook that well. They tend to use too much salt, fat, and sugar - much more than you would ever use at home.

Michael Pollan

Home Cooking Control Think Key Fat