Derrick Bell Quotes
Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.
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Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
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I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
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I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
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When you are finished with it, put it back in the first place that you looked for it.
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I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.
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A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
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Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.
