Bozoma Saint John Quotes
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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I love cycling.
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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War is over if you want it.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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I'm so glad that I didn't give up on myself and there were people who didn't give up on me.
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If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.
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The Major was a courteous man, judicious and sensible, but he doubted the fighting efficiency of the South Essex would be improved by a campaign to improve its manners.
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I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.
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We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.
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I've never taken the easy route. I don't even know what that is!
