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Antiblack racism is not only happening in the United States. It's actually happening all across the globe.

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• Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Together
  • Marriage
  • Problems

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • School
  • She
  • High

• I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Alone

• I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.

  

  Tara Lynne Barr
  • Girl
  • Same
  • Lucky

• I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Feeling
  • Religion

• I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Great
  • Growth
  • Pride

• As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.

  

  Nathan Meyer Rothschild
  • World
  • Work
  • Long

• Top knots are the easiest thing to create.

  

  Zendaya
  • Create
  • Top
  • Knots

• Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Place
  • Need

• I like my body, I like to have fun with what I put on, but I also want to remain classic. So I guess my signature is sexy and eclectic but classic.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Fun
  • Sexy
  • Have Fun

• Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Best
  • Modern
  • Measure

• Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Kids
  • Strong
  • Moral

• I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Business
  • Success

• An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mankind
  • Quiet
  • Stay

• I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

  

  J. Cole
  • Important
  • Better
  • Rap

• I plainly told them, 'Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God, for nothing is impossible to Him, that He may today send you food on your road, even until you are satisfied, because He has everywhere abundance.' And, with God's help, it was so done: Behold! A herd of swine appeared in the road before our eyes.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Heart
  • Done

• If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Night
  • Light

• First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

  

  Bjarne Stroustrup
  • Support

• I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.

  

  Donny Osmond
  • Business
  • True

• Racism... is the highest expression of the colonial system and one of the most significant features of the colonialist.

  

  Albert Memmi
  • Racism
  • Expression
  • Colonialist

• Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction. While political leaders in both parties have long considered it untouchable, it actually helps those at the top of the income scale far more than those at the bottom.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • Long
  • Help
  • Political

• Antiblack racism is not only happening in the United States. It's actually happening all across the globe.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • Racism