Nate Parker Quotes
I immediately felt the need, back when I was a managing tech engineer, to attach myself to Nat Turner. And to research him and learn about him and try to find ways into his life that I could apply to my life.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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But of what avail was the innocence of the accused in days when an indictment was equal to a conviction!
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.
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Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.
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O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.
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I immediately felt the need, back when I was a managing tech engineer, to attach myself to Nat Turner. And to research him and learn about him and try to find ways into his life that I could apply to my life.
