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We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.

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• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Royalty
  • Were
  • Descended

• I smoke, isn't that terrible?

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Terrible
  • Smoke

• As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Food
  • Green
  • Kitchen

• Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Company
  • Development

• I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Myself
  • Yourself
  • Train

• 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 am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

  

  Pam Gems
  • War
  • Philosophy
  • Personage

• My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

  

  Kamala Harris
  • May
  • Mother
  • You

• After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • May
  • Business
  • Start

• Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Feel
  • Contact

• Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • People
  • Best
  • Negative

• Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Sin
  • Lie
  • Tools

• Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Country
  • Anybody

• The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Fire
  • Trouble
  • Shells

• I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Week
  • Three
  • Fish

• I never thought about being famous.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Famous

• I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Conversation
  • Roundtables

• Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.

  

  E. B. White
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• As someone who started in the digital background, it's an easier, better, faster platform to bounce off of. You already have so much momentum, and you already have the experience. You're already comfortable being in front of the camera.

  

  Kian Lawley
  • Experience

• Yeah, I graduated with a 4.0… blood alcohol level.

  

  James Carville
  • Alcohol

• We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.

  

  Opal Tometi
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  • Live