Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

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I had a talent for scoring films. I just developed it.

John Carpenter

TalentJustScoringHadFilms

I wasn't inspired by lunatic asylums or anything like that.

Matthew Williamson

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We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

Ronald Reagan

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Comedy, in my opinion, is best when it's in the gray, and you're kind of pushing people's thoughts that they sort of had but never vocalized. And I think a joke is not good if someone says something, and immediately people are clapping because they're like, 'Yes! That is how I feel as well!'

Michelle Wolf

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I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund.

Louise Woodward

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I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

Joy Fielding

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We need to keep in mind the well-established fact that the full effects of monetary policy are felt only after long lags. This means that policy makers cannot wait until they have achieved their objectives to begin adjusting policy.

Janet Yellen

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It's critical to show that we can meet our commitment to students with disabilities without raising taxes and without increasing the deficit. In the past, there's been strong support for full funding and I'm still hearing that from many of my colleagues.

Jared Polis

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When I struggled with a depressive episode in 2013, I realized that I had a glitch in my thinking about my own motivation. I had separated learning and teaching into different concepts.

Brad Feld

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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

William Gibson

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I want to reignite the interest in hydro-electric investments.

Piyush Goyal

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Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.

Thurgood Marshall

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