Don Lemon Quotes
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I don't consider myself a celebrity. I'm just a journalist.
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African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.
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Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first.
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I like all kinds of music. I hope you do, too.
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I love old school rock and roll.
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I think if I had seen more people like me who are out and proud, it wouldn't have taken me 45 years to say it - to walk in the truth.
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Think about just how much we'd get accomplished if we collectively viewed the people with whom we came into contact as just an American and not an American with a prefix.
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I'm a gay black guy. If I can't ask questions without caring what people think of me, who can?
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If you're going to be in the business of news and telling people the truth... you've got to be honest. You've got to have the same rules for yourself as you do for everyone else.
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There's a degree of deception in silence.
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The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it.
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More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
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I know that some things are beyond our control, some illnesses are beyond our control, we get sick, we don't know why. But let's pledge to do whatever we can to avoid those high medical bills.
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It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.
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Most people would think if you're the prime news anchor, then you should sort of be this Edward R. Murrow, Clark Kent guy with the family and 2.5 kids - or the perky, cute yet smart Katie Couric.
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In order to be transparent, you really have to be completely honest and open, so that's how I've lived my life, and that's where I am now. I am completely transparent. There's nothing that you can't ask me and nothing I won't talk about.
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I am a big devourer of James Baldwin.
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Being gay doesn't take your brain away or exclude me from having the same attributes as anyone else.
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I was born gay, just as I was born black.
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If I have my opinion about something, you have your opinion about something, we don't have to fight over it. And we can have a conversation. We can also disagree without being disagreeable, and we can just disagree, which is fine. It doesn't mean that I don't like you, or you don't like me. We just disagree.
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Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican.
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My mom tells me every single day that she's proud of me.
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I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up in Baton Rouge.
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I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, 'His life is over.'