Mark Udall Quotes
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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Having diversity around the board room, the executive table, and up and down our stores is really important.
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For decades, many blacks were reluctant to pursue a profession that was associated with servitude. If you went to school, it was to become a lawyer or doctor. Older generations didn't understand why one would spend money to learn how to chop, peel, dice, and saute vegetables when that trade could be taught at home.
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There are so many people in pain because of the Syrian conflict. Ten million trying to live in camps that are barely set up for three.
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Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
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When I have the beard on I have people behind me in traffic honking their horn. I'm thinking "how in the world?" But it's the beard - it's kind of the stand out thing.
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There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people.
