Yvette Clarke Quotes

I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.

Yvette Clarke

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You have to be humble when you're dealing with God.

Jill Scott

GodHumbleYouBe HumbleDealing

More often, I'm asked to play somebody's mother, somebody's partner, somebody's wife.

Melissa Leo

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Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.

John J. McLaughlin

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I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.

Maurice Ravel

WorkGreatBestI AmWorstQuantity

The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods.

Matthew Desmond

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I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me.

Anita Brookner

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All of my acoustic playing came from my songwriting. All of the chords I've learned and all of the voicings I play them in are a direct result of composing.

Mat Kearney

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Not only are drinking, smoking, swearing, dancing and going to movies not issues... they simply do not matter. They matter to fundamentalists, of course, but to anyone else outside the church, they could care less whether we smoke or attend movies. Absolutely no one gives a tinker's damn whether I say 'tinker's damn' or not.

Mike Yaconelli

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I adore water, so it would be a real adventure to visit the Amazon before they chop down all the trees.

Michelle Ryan

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The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.

Jonathan Mostow

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My kids don't call me 'Mom' because I don't want them to. They're Michael's children. It's not that they are not my children, but I had them because I wanted him to be a father.

Debbie Rowe

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Maybe some day they'll find me behind the computer, just bones and cobwebs.

Clive Cussler

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