Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

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I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

Jerzy Kosinski

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I think there are much bigger differences between players in this league than between coaches. There is a big gap between LeBron James and the small forward for whoever. Far bigger than between two coaches.

Jeff Van Gundy

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'Slumdog Millionaire' is a fairy tale, but it starts in a place you really believe, and that came from spending two months wandering around the slums picking up stories and talking to people.

Simon Beaufoy

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I just pray I can keep working. I just pray I grow old gracefully.

Robin Wright

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As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

Robert Teeter

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China, as a major nation of the world, as one of five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, and as a member of the U.N. Council on Human Rights, should be contributing to peace for humankind and progress toward human rights.

Liu Xiaobo

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I think nobody can block me. Nobody can stop me.

Jason Pierre-Paul

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U2 and Sinead O'Connor - I haven't a clue why we're compared to them. Apart from us all being Irish, we've nothing in common.

Dolores O'Riordan

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An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976. Stevenson was at his peak. The world had never seen a heavyweight with the tools Stevenson brought into the ring.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

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I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet.

Allen Iverson

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I'm from a neighborhood that isn't amazing - it's not the worst, either - and I was happy. But Atlanta is just one area of a country. There's a world out there I wanna touch.

Shameik Moore

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I'm a proud Republican - there's no issue with that at all, so why can't I be a proud Republican and just try to solve problems?

Rick Snyder

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