Nafessa Williams Quotes

I am African-American, and I am a proud African-American. I just don't like to put myself in a box and say, 'I'm an African-American actress.' I am an American actress, and I can do any kind of role.

Nafessa Williams

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As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding.

Jessica Valenti

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

John Maynard Keynes

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We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

Matthew Desmond

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Our motto at Blue Origin is 'Gradatim Ferociter': 'Step by Step, Ferociously.'

Jeff Bezos

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If you're a painter, you don't go, 'Abstract's really selling, so that's what I'm going to do.' If you're really truly an artist, you have to think what you're meant to paint.

Trisha Yearwood

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I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I'm back home.

Josh Hutcherson

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Working on '2001' was my film school. Stanley Kubrick was my mentor.

Douglas Trumbull

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It's human nature to wonder.

Conor Oberst

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There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.

Aubrey de Grey

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This much is true: When we created the euro, it wasn't possible to create a political union along with it. People weren't ready for that. But since then, they've grown more willing to go in that direction. It's a process, one that is sometimes laborious and sometimes slow. But it's important to keep the populations involved.

Wolfgang Schauble

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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

William Hazlitt

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I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a movie.

Susannah Cahalan

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