James Forman, Jr. Quotes
We must continue to recruit progressive prosecutors to run in local elections, support those who do, and hold them accountable if they win.
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I caught the acting bug from my dad.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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We found the appetite for 'Frontline' has only grown as the digital landscape has exploded. The appetite for the reporting we do on our digital platforms to the short films we're doing for our Facebook and YouTube channels. And we're still producing these remarkable long-form films.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
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Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
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My father was in the paper recycling business back before they called it recycling.
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Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring life. A quiet, boring life so no one wants to write a biography. I'm the only writer in history only to have one wife, for instance.
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We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend’s presence, is concerned with the common world.
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I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
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I'm pushing - on a bipartisan basis, actually - to get federal support for the creation of high-quality textbooks that can be downloaded for free on the Internet.
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We must continue to recruit progressive prosecutors to run in local elections, support those who do, and hold them accountable if they win.
