Malcolm X Quotes
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The symbolic power of Barack Obama's presidency - that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle - assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries.
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I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
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I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.
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The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.
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Doing the right thing has power.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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Europe, the U.S., and their allies can defeat the terrorists of Islamic State, or ISIS. The first step is making the decision to fight back. The next step is understanding that drones and standoff missiles will not be enough. Ground troops will be needed.
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I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
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I never read about photography.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.
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Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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A film that doesn't get distributed is like a child that never gets married.
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Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
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I've got a Kanji symbol on my shoulder; it's for my son and means 'strength and power.' I have my son and daughter's names, Dominik and Aalyah, written on the inside of the left and right biceps, too.
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Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
