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Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Quotes

Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 29, 1908 - April 4, 1972

Topics

Citizenship Country Place Changes

In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

Relationship Criticism Better Praise

World leaders need to realize that the cost of transforming the global energy system is far less than coping with the consequences of burning the planet's remaining fossil fuels.

Johan Rockstrom

World Energy Consequences Need Cost

I think the definition of a book is changing.

Book Think Changing I Think

I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.

Anand Giridharadas

Moment Enough Fast Will Old Cannot

I don't know what a person does that does not have a relationship with God. When he goes to the doctor and the doctors says, 'Hey, you've got less than two months to live and there's nothing we can do for you.' Who do they turn to when you're given something that earth shattering?

Live God Relationship Doctor You

I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay.

Tough Famous Mean Director Going He

The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that contains it: its unity is variable and relative. As soon as one questions that unity, it loses its self-evidence; it indicates itself, constructs itself, only on the basis of a complex field of discourse.

Michel Foucault

Unity Book Questions Hands Within

The 'garra charrua' is something we're proud of, even if other people sometimes misunderstand it.

People Proud Sometimes Something

There was every reason to honestly say that 3D was a gimmick. And it's largely true. And it's largely pretty bad. When you put a filter in front of the projector, and you put on your glasses and cut the light in half again, the movies are dim as hell, and they give you headaches and eye strain, and it's terrible.

Douglas Trumbull

Light Glasses Eye Hell You Bad

I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.

Life Dog Past Believe Why I Believe

There are plus-size women who've paved the way - Rebel Wilson, Gabby Sidibe, Melissa McCarthy. I can't wait for the day when I can have a conversation, and it's not about the size of my pants but how I prepared for the role.

Women Day Wait Rebel Conversation

If you're rich, you can leave a library, a building, or a hospital wing. But writing leaves behind a visceral sense of what it was like to be alive on the planet in a particular time. Writing tells us what it meant for someone to be human.

Time Writing Building Library Rich

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