Malcolm X Quotes
In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
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See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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The study titled 'Impact of Immigration on Wages, by Education Level, 1994-2007' found that increased immigration had an effect of lowering wages for earlier immigrants by an average of 4.6 percent. Running counter to popular perception is the finding that for native-born Americans, wages actually increased by 0.6 percent.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.
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Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.
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There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.
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The experience of being a young, blonde, naive but well-intentioned young producer was both intimidating and eye-opening.
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If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be the new Prometheus bringing celestial fire to breathe life into robots. But no man is without passions. When they are moderated, they are the heart of the enterprise; but when the brake is stripped of them, they are its destruction.
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In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'
