Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
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I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
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I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate.
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There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
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Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.
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Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.
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What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.
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When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
