Tate Taylor Quotes

It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.

Tate Taylor

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Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.

Jim Davis

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We lived in a ghetto. I could have pretended I was hard or tough and not a square. I wound up not getting in trouble. I don't consider myself to be especially wise, but I will say that it's pretty clear that some people want to get out and some people don't. I wanted out.

Andre Braugher

MyselfWisePeopleToughTrouble

This media era is amazing. Twitter, Facebook, ESPN, news outlets everywhere.

Metta World Peace

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The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption.

Steve Jurvetson

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Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain.

Tony Buzan

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Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Mason Cooley

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Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publicly and willingly; it's about collecting the information you don't think you're sharing at all, such as the online searches you do on search engines... or private emails or text messages... or the location of your mobile phone at any time.

Mikko Hypponen

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Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.

Djimon Hounsou

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When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in.

Dominic Monaghan

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I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar.

Dick Dale

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After a few drinks, my mom would recite her lines as Portia in 'The Merchant of Venice' from her high school play. But I first discovered Shakespeare properly when I was about five. I used to look for the most complicated books I could find and pretend to be reading them. I wanted people to think I was smart.

Chris Adrian

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I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.

Brent Weeks

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