Emmanuel Jal Quotes
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
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It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is a museum about the world as seen from Britain rather than a history focused on these islands.
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I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages.
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I've never had an acting lesson in my life. I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing.
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I can't say that I know the lexicon as intimately as a lot of people, so I may be unworthy of being called a Trekkie. That would be doing a disservice to the people who really are Trekkies.
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I go crazy trying to energize people, 'cause that's what I am. I'm a battery. If you're down, you can plug into me and get charged up.
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When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.
