Margot Lee Shetterly Quotes

During World War II, hundreds of thousands of people actually - and among them many African-American - migrated to the Hampton Roads area because of the job boom that was happening. It was a place where you could get stable war jobs.

Margot Lee Shetterly

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Russia is not our friend.

Maxine Waters

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I thought that through the strip, I could vent my spleen and be funny at the same time. But when it comes to humor, there's no substitute for reality and politicians.

Jeff MacNelly

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I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that's the case, you ain't self-made.

Michael Eric Dyson

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Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

John Sayles

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I think life is hard at the combat outposts, and anything that distracts us from supporting them, in my mind, is something that we shouldn't do.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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Of course I read Braille, yes.

Stevie Wonder

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My mom was always driving me back and forth to guitar lessons, growing up. She was super supportive and probably my biggest cheerleader.

Chord Overstreet

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My grandmother is a huge Hawkeyes fan, so I, by proxy, have to be one. I'm more of a professional sports fan, and I've never been a huge college fan, but because of my grandmother, I've gotten into a lot of really good Hawkeye games. So, because I'm a good grandson, I'm a Hawkeye fan.

Corey Taylor

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Man - a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

Susie Orbach

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Refugees tend to avoid planes, airports and fake passports, even though flying may appear to be the most obvious way to flee. For one thing, security procedures at airports are far stricter than at land borders.

Peter Landesman

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After Sandy hit, my wife and I saw pictures of the devastation following the hurricane in the news. We immediately wanted to find a way to assist those in need.

Tyson Chandler

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