Al Sharpton Quotes

If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make something of my life.

Al Sharpton

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My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

Jim Carrey

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Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

Joe Frazier

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I lead a very conventional life. I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. This was more true when I was living in California, when I didn't lead a writer's life at all.

Joan Didion

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We don't even realize how loaded of a topic money is. We've got really serious judgments on it.

Jen Sincero

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Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

Anatoly Chubais

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Anybody and everybody's going to get it. I'm not racing through my division. I'm cleaning it out. So if you want two L's, you're going to get two L's, and if you're looking for one, come fight 'Blessed.'

Max Holloway

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You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

Jeanette Winterson

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I always say that life is not easy for anybody. People hear about the young actors who have a rough life, but there are plenty of other kids who aren't actors who have a rough time, too, and I don't know if the ratio is any different.

Johnny Crawford

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What I dislike is conventional realism - a system of gestures, descriptions, psychological revelations that was once a vital way of representing the world but has become hackneyed through endless repetition. I'd argue that a conventional realist isn't a realist at all, but a falsifier of the real.

Steven Millhauser

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I believe in outgrowing a mentor and getting a new one, and I think that you can never be too old to be schooled by your mentor.

Troy Carter

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When you're wearing pointe shoes, honestly, they hurt - a lot - every day.

Mary Helen Bowers

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I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.

Dennis Lehane

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