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Marc Veasey Quotes

The Supreme Court 2013 ruling that gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act set in motion what many feared: the subjection of minorities, seniors, and low-income Americans to unfair, punitive barriers preventing them from exercising their most basic right as American citizens.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 3, 1971

Topics

Voting American Unfair Barriers Act

I like to be productive - it's very hard for me to go on vacation because I just feel like I'm losing time.

Time Vacation Losing Me Feel Go

Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.

Gun Two Check Buy Been Million

Now that people know who I am, I get offered plays here and there. It was so much easier to do it when nobody knew who I was. I can't even imagine that somebody would come and pay money just to come and see me now.

Money I Am People Me Nobody Know

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

Architecture Artist Buildings Want

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

Imagination Creative Opinion Energy

I'm eternally grateful for the fact that I'm doing what I like best. I thank my stars for it. I wonder why I wasted all that time being fat. I should have lost weight and started acting earlier. But as they say, things happen when they are meant to.

Stars Time Best Grateful Fat Doing

It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society.

Life Light Society Matter Single

Perhaps misguidedly, I always admire the people who are so polished.

People Admire Always Who Polished

I was one of the key people responsible for building Facebook's News Feed. When we launched it in 2006, users hated it. There were 'I Hate Facebook' groups; random people organized protests. We even hired a security team.

Hate People Team Random Building

I love getting to be in 'The Avengers.' You just breathe a little bit. It's not all about you. It's so nice to have other people bearing the burden of responsibility.

Love Responsibility People You Nice

I do not look at the end of my career with any fear.

Fear End Look Career Any

I'm not a nervous flier. I realize it's still the safest form of travel.

Travel Nervous Realize Still Form

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