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Hakeem Jeffries Quotes

Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

Hakeem Jeffries

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: August 4, 1970

Topics

Politics Brooklyn Places Where Even

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

Search Dive Pearls Must Would Who

People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on 'The Daily Show'... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.

Daily Knowledge Humor Mistake People

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

People Want Try Always Entertain

I thought incorporating Columbus and Platte County into the 1st District was a good idea.

Jeff Fortenberry

Good Thought Good Idea Idea Columbus

I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years.

Steven Cojocaru

Grateful Talk Years Something Last

Don't give it to the audience; leave it to the audience.

Audience Leave Give

I'm definitely drawn to stories about outsiders. Feeling like that myself as a gay black man, I often seek to give a voice to those in the world who don't have one.

Roger Ross Williams

Myself Man World Voice Black Gay

I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I do my research. And I get a clear understanding of what the language is. It is a tremendous process I have to go through as I am sure all actors do, finding the gems hidden in his language.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Learning Walk I Am Research Language

I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick Stein on fish. But I don't watch them very much because I don't think it's fair for my husband to be in a total food environment all the time! So we watch programmes about gardening more.

Love Time Food Gardening Husband

Mine is, after all, the generation that had come to maturity drinking in the forebodings of the Silones, Koestlers, and Richard Wrights. It had left us ill-prepared for decisions that had to be made in our own time about Algeria, Birmingham, or the Bay of Pigs.

Lorraine Hansberry

Time Maturity Generation Decisions

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

Ignorance Anger Someone Argument

As for Hollywood, there was an offer. But I declined to do it because of certain moral and ethical values.

Values Moral Hollywood Ethical Offer

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