James Forman, Jr. Quotes
Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.
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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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Many of the people I work with that are half my age complain that they feel tired all the time. I tell them: 'Look at what you're eating, how much you are exercising, and how much sleep you are getting.'
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It took me five years to realize what I could do with my voice. No Auto-Tune - cut all that off.
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If we continue to cut something with each resolution, I would say we're making steady progress and sending a strong conservative message.
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Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence.
