Tamron Hall Quotes

When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.

Tamron Hall

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Before we had the Internet, I organized a fax campaign against the first Iraq war. We blasted faxes to the hotel where James Baker and Tariq Aziz were having their final meeting before the two sides went to war. Much more recently, I co-founded Avaaz and Get Up, which inspired the creation of Purpose.

Jeremy Heimans

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The thing that's fun about the 'Housewives' is talking to your friends about it.

Andy Cohen

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My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.

Maurice Sendak

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I always promised myself that I wouldn't do catwalk shows until the day I died.

John Rocha

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Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Alphonso Jackson

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What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

Sun Ra

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There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.

Mary J. Blige

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My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I was a child, and whenever he left, he would write to me. He wrote letters to me all through college, and we still correspond. His letters, and my mother's, are one of my life's treasures.

Louise Erdrich

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The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

Joyce Carol Oates

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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

William James

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That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it.

William Gibson

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My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that.

Scott Ritter

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