James Forman, Jr. Quotes
Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
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I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?
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I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way - 'Where have our manners gone?' - but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love something that I can hold to my chest for a moment. Still, I bear no grudge against the e-mail form itself.
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I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.
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For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you'll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you'll have a bad day where you're really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, 'Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?'
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While labour market reports scream with dramatic youth unemployment data, hundreds of employers cry out for employees with the right skills sets. As recruiters, we suffer this shortage every day.
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Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.
