Jurnee Smollett-Bell Quotes

There are obstacles and challenges that my dark-skinned sisters face that I will never know. How they are perceived when they walk in a room of strangers is something I will never truly know.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

John Berger

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Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

Mel Brooks

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I hated being a public company CEO.

John Katzman

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There's really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something bad about me. I mean, people enjoy reading bad stuff about people.

Sonakshi Sinha

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Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that.

Robert Duvall

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It's not up to me. I will fight whoever the UFC puts in front of me. If it was up to me, I want to fight Dana White.

Mirko Cro Cop

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I've always actually taken very good care of body.

Luke Macfarlane

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I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.

Jonah Goldberg

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For me, music gives a voice to fashion.

Donatella Versace

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I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.

Count Basie

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I moved to the States, and that was a big thing for me. I moved to Miami, and I joined the Blackzilians. For me at the time, it seemed like the best logical solution, but sometimes surrounding yourself with new people is not good.

Alistair Overeem

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What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.

Peter MacKay

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