Randall Kennedy Quotes

The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.

Randall Kennedy

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PoliticsAccomplishmentAmerican

I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

Ji-Hae Park

TodayDepressionHappyYouLook

My first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them.

John Burnside

CarBookFindFirstDestroyTried

I sold door to door for a couple years. As the years recede from the event, I remember less about it, which is probably good for my mind. It was home improvement in Cerritos California, Buena Park, that area.

Andy Kindler

GoodHomeImprovementMindDoor

As women, we're trying to be the best mothers and partners and have careers. We're trying to do so much. It's okay to say to other women, 'How do you do this?' Because I honestly don't know. The more we are honest, the more you realize we're all just trying to figure this out.

Amanda de Cadenet

WomenBestTryingYouKnowSay

Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

Robert Baden-Powell

LifePowerValueWindSwimmingYou

We all make mistakes, and sometimes the difference that we forget is that the people we read about in the paper and on the Internet and see on TV, behind that is, at its core, a mistake.

Judy Smith

MistakesMistakePeopleInternetSee

New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.

Douglas Brinkley

NewDetroitNew OrleansUrbanJust

The UFC has been nothing but great to me. I can't complain; they give me what I want.

Donald Cerrone

GreatMeWantNothingComplainGive

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.

Claude Chabrol

LawFirstStudyStartedLicence

I normally fly under the radar, and I'm normally not the best in my family, even though I'm sort of second or third best in the world.

Bronte Campbell

FamilyBestFlyWorldEvenSecond

When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it's pure therapy for me.

Ashley Monroe

SadDayMeWritingSadnessThink

When bosses, leaders, and powerful men and women ignore or deny the accounts of harassment victims, they reinforce the idea that harassers are playing the game as they should and that the rest of us should fall in line.

Pramila Jayapal

WomenMenGameRestIgnorePowerful

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