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Because America doesn't have a strong textile industry anymore, we have to bring things like fabrics, zippers, and color tape into the U.S., and having so many elements involved in production adds to the amount of waste. You might have some things coming from Italy, a button coming from China, or lining coming from Korea; it's just endless.

Maria Cornejo

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ColorStrongAmericaYouChina

One of my goals is definitely to motivate the youth towards sports. Whether it's arts or academics, I just want to let them know that anything is possible. To think that I grew up as a WWE fan and now I'm a WWE champion proves that through hard work anything really is possible.

Jinder Mahal

WorkHard WorkGoalsSportsYouth

Everybody does good things, but I'm talking about making major changes in the educational system that would impact an entire race. I'm talking about stopping these young gang members from killing one another. I'm talking about keeping prisons from overflowing.

Jim Brown

GoodGood ThingsImpactTalkingRace

Basketball can give us a kind of mystical awareness. Everything seems focused and in balance.

John Edgar Wideman

BalanceBasketballKindFocusedUs

Imagine if Lin-Manuel Miranda had tried to do 'Hamilton' first in Hollywood. They would have told him, 'The forefathers weren't Latino or black. They didn't speak in hip hop.' That would never had gotten going in Hollywood ever. But theater let Lin-Manuel him do it, and he created an incredible masterpiece.

John Leguizamo

SpeakBlackHollywoodMasterpiece

If you stand for something you will have people for you and people against you. But if you stand for nothing you will have nobody for you and nobody against you.

Maurice Saatchi

PeopleStandYouNobodyNothing

This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.

Matt LeBlanc

TomorrowMeDarkActingNailsOut

Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple.

John W. Dawson

CanadaTwoMapleBeaver

When I went to college, we had a very good local following, but stations only televised two or three NCAA games a season. And when I went to Europe, once in a while we had a good crowd, but usually not.

Sue Wicks

GoodCollegeThreeGamesTwoEurope

I think it's part of the DNA of human beings. We are a cooking animal. What differentiates us from all the other animals is that we cook and they don't.

Ruth Reichl

CookingAnimalThinkAnimalsDNAUs

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Roland Barthes

LoveLove IsLanguageToo MuchTry

The welfare state is collapsing all around us. There are people that realize that we can't go on this way, but I'm not sure how many people realize how close we are to the collapse of the U.S. financial system.

Rush Limbaugh

PeopleFinancialGoWayRealizeUs

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.

Michelle Shocked

AppreciationMeThinkFeelYouBack

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