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I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

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• You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Think
  • Never
  • Same

• I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.

  

  Wale
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Choices
  • Nothing
  • Unlimited

• My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Movie

• If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Live
  • Women
  • Reality

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Women
  • Man
  • Words

• I don't drink coffee.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Coffee
  • Drink
  • Drink Coffee

• The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Up
  • Different
  • Country

• I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.

  

  Sam Crawford
  • Book
  • Television
  • Gift

• Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Organs

• That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Job
  • Attention
  • Try

• I'm a real optimist.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Real
  • Optimist

• Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Design
  • Without
  • Visual

• To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • View
  • Too Much

• My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Country
  • Father
  • Strong

• My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Camera

• A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Knowledge
  • Present

• Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Life
  • True
  • Sex

• It's like doctors can't save all their patients, but, on balance, Bain under Gov. Romney created well over 100,000 jobs, which is certainly more than has been created in the Obama administration because we're down over 500,000 over the last three-and-a-half years.

  

  Jim Talent
  • Balance

• A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

  

  George Washington
  • Punishment
  • Variety
  • Proportion

• My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Fun

• Some of these actresses or public personas who are very public about their disciplined diets, more power to them. I just don't see the point. I'm just not going to be one of those people photographed in a bikini where people are like, 'OMG, look at Amy!' I mean, it might be OMG, but not for the reasons I want.

  

  Amy Adams
  • People
  • Power

• I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

  

  Chief Joseph
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