James Forman, Jr. Quotes
While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally.
James Forman, Jr.
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the mainstream pre-requisites. I love the way I make movies, but there are certain stories that need to be told in a certain way, and 'The Lunchbox' is that movie, and I'm so proud to present this movie.
Karan Johar
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
C. L. R. James
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
Francesco Guicciardini
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
Ed Koch
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
Orson Welles
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This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing.
Abby Wambach
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis
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The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
W. Somerset Maugham
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From these biased studies come biased social policy. Hundreds of millions of dollars to enforce sanctions against fathers who don’t pay mothers; almost nothing to enforce sanctions against mothers who don’t allow fathers to see children.
Warren Farrell
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Andre Agassi, in his account of becoming an embittered prodigy, seems never to have liked tennis much, except as a vehicle for achievement. The kids who do like life inside the lines can find the flow within that green-and-white geometry.
Adam Gopnik
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The cold north wind which bows to earthThe lightness of the willow's birthBends not the mountain cedar trees;Folding their branches from the breeze,They stand as if they could defyThe utmost rage of storm and sky.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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'To stamp becoming with the character of being-that is the supreme will to power.' (WM 617) This suggests that becoming only is if it is grounded in being as being: 'That everything recurs is the closest approximation of a world of becoming to one of being.'
Martin Heidegger
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Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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Jede Vorstellung ist eine Verallgemeinerung, und diese gehört dem Denken an. Etwas allgemein machen, heißt, es denken. ('Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts oder Naturrecht und Staatswissenschaft im Grundrisse', Berlin, 1833, p. 35)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Like a steely blade in a silken sheathWe don't see what they're made ofThey shout about love, but when push comes to shoveThey live for the things they're afraid ofAnd the knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them...- The Weapon (Part II of 'Fear') (1982)
Neil Peart
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I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French Quarter. I played music most of my early life and it just seemed that to entertain people was a really good thing to do.
John Larroquette
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While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally.
James Forman, Jr.
