Burgess Owens Quotes

Dubois, later in his life, would join the Communist party and renounce his American citizenship. His 'integration at all costs' message would, decades later, continue to influence the community's self-perception.

Burgess Owens

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Lissa Treiman is an artist who submitted a guest strip to me back in 2008 and whose work I've followed since. She works in animation. When I first mentioned on Twitter that I was interested in writing a series but not drawing it, she got in touch.

John Allison

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I've been to strip clubs where the dancers have these whole routines that they create just for the wow factor and to say, 'Look how strong and physically fit I am.' Most women couldn't do it, and it's not necessarily sexual. It's just a performance.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

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I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money... but city and state governments cannot.

Robert Kiyosaki

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I have always said that I believe in the people's right to vote on an issue.

Robert J. Bentley

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Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an increased likelihood of cancer, as well as skeletal changes that could prevent them from attaining their full adult height.

Jeffrey Kluger

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Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

Jeanette Winterson

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With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives.

Michael Douglas

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I haven't reported in grand detail on rituals of American life, road journeys or malls or the death of steel-manufacturing towns. I think this is because I feel a degree of alienation that I cannot combat.

Amitava Kumar

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I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

Sting

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I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

Sidney Poitier

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Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

Trisha Yearwood

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I kind of realized I could sing, so I played around with that for a while. And that led me to acting in itself, which I came more passionate about by the age of 15.

Toni Collette

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