Nelson Mandela Quotes
The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
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Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
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No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.
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The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.
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One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.
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While the traditional banks and credit card companies lock down access to their payments infrastructure to a handful of trusted parties, Bitcoin is open to all.
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We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last to be able to do anything about it.
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Do you ever think? The voice, God forbid.
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The modern clergyman has acquired in his study of the science which I believe is called exegesis an astonishing facility for explaining things away.
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Stuff happens when you are a kid, it scars you inside for life.
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I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.
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I have a military background in my family.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.
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The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.
