James K. Polk Quotes
Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.
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To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.
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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
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Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.
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I always felt like I'm a good one-on-one defensive player.
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I strive to create new opportunities in terms of partnerships and new works being presented and things you haven't seen anywhere else. Also to help you see old things in ways you haven't seen them before.
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I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.
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The leadership of the Palestinian Authority is not held in high regard by most of the population of the West Bank. They're seen as living relatively high off the hog and certainly not accomplishing anything vis-a-vis the Israelis.
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I think the first role I ever played was Mr. Bumble in a production of 'Oliver.'
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I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than a million who can take it or leave it.
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When my father was a young actor, it is absolutely true that the vast majority were fairly middle class. Then all of a sudden, people like Albert Finney burst through and turned all that on its head.
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I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle.
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Ignoring all prejudices of caste, creed, class, color, sex, or race, a swami follows the precepts of human brotherhood. His goal is absolute unity with Spirit.
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I have seen humility in many of the finest leaders I have met the world over. And indeed, it is embodied in the warm, engaging and quintessentially successful spirit of Sir Richard Branson.
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches, and then moves on.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.
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In many ways, we all have extraordinary circumstances thrust upon us in life, and it's up to us to do the best with them.
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Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.
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Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.
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Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.
