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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One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.
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I always take kind of a zen view of casting and I really don't remember people who passed. I kind of turn it over to the universe and figure, 'Wow, I guess that wasn't meant to be.' It doesn't sit with me.
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If I'm a bank, and I'm making risky loans, I have an incentive, if I can, to make those loans using other people's money: in other words, to make highly leveraged loans.
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If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!
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The power of art can open our minds.
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When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
