Laverne Cox Quotes

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.

Laverne Cox

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LifeFatherMotherBrotherMeMom

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

Jeremy Piven

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I keep a diary because I love this writer, David Sedaris, and he writes a lot about his diary, and he inspired me to keep one.

Maya Hawke

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Struggling to end the war and to eliminate slavery once and for all by way of the 13th Amendment, with the amendment's prospective passage undermining the effort to make peace with the Confederacy and vice versa, Lincoln embodied the Great Man theory that leftists disdain.

Steve Erickson

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We've got to stand up at some point and say, 'We are not gonna pay slavery reparations in the United States Congress.' That war's been fought. That was over a century ago. That debt was paid for in blood, and it was paid for in the blood of a lot of Yankees, especially. And there's no reparations for the blood that paid for the sin of slavery.

Steve King

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Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.

Tom Conti

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At the time that they were shown, the Brillo Boxes were underappreciated. It's only now, with the patina of history, that we can really see these masterpieces in a clear light.

Mike Bidlo

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My punches are crisp, powerful, and sharp.

Joseph Parker

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You give me someone with the right personality, and I'll give you a bar manager in three weeks. You give me someone who has been a lousy bar manager for 30 years, and in three weeks, you'll still have a lousy bar manager.

Jon Taffer

PersonalityMeSomeoneYouThree

Everyone has something to learn from one another. When different disciplines meet, it creates this amazing unpredictability.

Jonathan Anderson

AmazingLearnMeetEveryoneAnother

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence.

Dorothea Dix

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I'm representing the Bahamas; I'm representing a lot of islands - it's a whole nation behind me, on my back.

Deandre Ayton

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I always wanted to be on a great TV show and in a Broadway show and have a CD out, and the fact that they happened simultaneously is kind of an embarrassment of riches.

Cheyenne Jackson

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