Yance Ford Quotes

I hope that audiences understand that there is a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address, that there has always been a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address. In fact, our country is built on the precariousness of black lives, the disposability of black lives.

Yance Ford

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I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.

Jim Woodring

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In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.

Robert Klein

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It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

Matthew Macfadyen

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The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It's alarming.

Stefanie Powers

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My family are the most important thing to me.

Steven Mackintosh

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I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

Martina Navratilova

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I have enormous respect for anyone who would offer to sacrifice their life to defend my right to live. Is there any greater gift one can give another?

Michael Moore

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I think gene therapy and nanotechnology go hand in hand.

Liz Parrish

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And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.

Dierks Bentley

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I never met Johnny Cash personally, but I feel like I did because I listened to so much of his music, and even though he's gone, it's still there: you can go pull a vinyl record out and hear his personal thoughts and his voice and feel connected to him.

Dierks Bentley

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The early parodies that talk-show people did of rock n' roll in the '50s were terrible. They didn't know it, they didn't like it - and that's a lethal combination.

Christopher Guest

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I just hated school. I don't like to learn. Don't teach me anything!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

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