James Forman, Jr. Quotes
African-Americans have always viewed the protection of black lives as a civil rights issue, whether the threat comes from police officers or street criminals. Far from ignoring the issue of crime by blacks against other blacks, African-American officials and their constituents have been consumed by it.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
Kate Atkinson
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
Harold H. Greene
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
Ram Charan
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
Natasha Calis
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
Pat Metheny
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
W. Somerset Maugham
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
Jackie Cooper
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I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
Tamara Mellon
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
Laura Moser
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
Jackee Harry
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
Fran Drescher
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable Bede
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb
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The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
Adam Driver
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I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
Venus Williams
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The public has been told repeatedly that terrorism is 'evil,' which it undoubtedly is, and that 'evildoers' are responsible for it, which doubtless they are. But beyond these justifiable condemnations, there is a historical void.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services.
Bernard Ebbers
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The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.
Margaret Heffernan
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
Pat Brown
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African-Americans have always viewed the protection of black lives as a civil rights issue, whether the threat comes from police officers or street criminals. Far from ignoring the issue of crime by blacks against other blacks, African-American officials and their constituents have been consumed by it.
James Forman, Jr.