I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.
Edward Brooke
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I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.
Maya Beiser
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Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement.
Michael Eric Dyson
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Fit is everything. I don't care what your body type is like: If you're not wearing clothes that fit you, you can't have style.
Stacy London
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It's totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race - to despise an entire nation - to vilify an entire religion.
Stan Lee
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It was hard for me to leave the nest, but my mom is super proud of me. She said, 'You became independent really quickly, and I'm so proud of you,' but she misses me all the same.
Mirai Nagasu
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Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.
Mitt Romney
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As a former Captain in the Army National Guard, I trained hundreds of soldiers to lead troops into combat.
Jason Kander
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But I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career. The closest I ever got to movies was going to watch them, and I thought that's the way it would be, so I never considered working in this business.
Joseph Kosinski
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Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
Dennis Gabor
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Every single night, I try to get people to realize that love is what is most important, and that they need to use every opportunity given them to reach out in love. Schmaltzy and corny, I know, but it's true.
Delilah
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'Superunknown' was one of the most dramatic shifts in what we were doing musically. I don't think I realized it at the time.
Chris Cornell
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There is no one single solution to the gun violence issue, nor are there any easy answers.
Brad Schneider
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