James Forman, Jr. Quotes
At the end of the day, I think my story is, we need black officers because African-Americans need a fair shot at good jobs in this country, but we cannot expect them and should not expect them to change the nature of policing.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.
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Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
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Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.
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I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
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I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
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We have to look to the well-being of the Lebanese citizens and create prosperity in the country, and you can't create prosperity without stability.
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The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.
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If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.
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I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
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The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.
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I believe in clean skin and using a good cleanser, toner, and moisturiser.
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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
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A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.
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Everything great in western culture has come from the quarrel with nature.
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At the end of the day, I think my story is, we need black officers because African-Americans need a fair shot at good jobs in this country, but we cannot expect them and should not expect them to change the nature of policing.
