Darryl Glenn Quotes
Where are Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton? They don't speak for Black America, and they don't speak for me.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
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We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).
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The positive and negative poles of a battery create an electrical flow. The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy in motion.
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Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.
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'The Next Ten Minutes' from 'The Last Five Years' is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
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The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.
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Where are Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton? They don't speak for Black America, and they don't speak for me.
