Issa Rae Quotes

I really want to be the black Tina Fey, where I just am able to produce my own content and produce other content for other minority filmmakers and put their voices on screen and basically be able to have free range to produce.

Issa Rae

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I started wondering why it is that people line up behind charismatic leaders. It's easy to understand the emergence of a figure who's narcissistic and compelling. But why people follow this person mindlessly - that was the hard question to me.

Robert J. Sawyer

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'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all too often, everything does.

Robert Gottlieb

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Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.

Amitabh Bachchan

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If you were summoned for jury duty and you didn't show up, what would happen? You'd be in jail!

Trey Gowdy

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The '50s was the golden age of music all over the world for some crazy, 'X-File'-like reason I can't quite understand.

Ry Cooder

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I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.

Rollo May

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Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.

Mitch Daniels

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You can find comedy anywhere.

Jason Jones

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It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes.

Josh Dallas

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We need to look at the totality of the things that we're labeling as violent and really examine whether we need to have some more proportionality in terms of the punishment fitting the crime that's done. The bright line that we have right now, between violent and nonviolent, does not account for shades of gray.

Cory Booker

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I got my family here and my career here and I'm sitting here in the middle, and I'm stuck. So I have to do something, you know, have to reach out and get some help.

William Perry

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We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my childhood, we were the only members living outside of Egypt. So between my father's prestige as the eldest son and my own exotic pedigree, I basked in the spotlight.

Shereen El Feki

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