Ilyasah Shabazz Quotes
My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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As with Google, Facebook was a place that just concentrated a lot of top talent. It's just sort of natural that those people would go on and continue to be successful.
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I met Patti LuPone and Elaine Paige in a party. I didn't speak too much with Patti, but she was lovely with me.
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I am one of the endangered species: people who still write in meter and rime.
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Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.
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You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
