James McBride Quotes
When my mother left home, her family sat shivah for her, more because my father was not Jewish than because he was black.
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As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a responsibility to do everything in my power to create positive perceptions of Asian Americans through my work.
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Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.
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If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat?
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They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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I think that what we do out on the field is oftentimes a little bit better than what men do. I don't think that we flop around as much. I think we're tough. I mean, I've got battle wounds on my legs from the turf and sliding. And we're gritty. And we're feisty. And I think that I would never back down from a guy.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.
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Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.
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I would say the only thing I may change is that my whole family could live in Louisiana. That would be nice if all our houses were a block away from each other. That, to me, would be the best thing in the entire world.
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The E.P.A. is too important to treat like a reality TV show. People's lives and our country's resources are at stake.
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The fact is that television, even before the movies, offered the chance to control our work and to get to do it again when we did something right. So television has always been better to writers than any other medium for a long time.
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The practical result of the court's decision is that the president and all other government officials will be less likely to receive full and frank advice about their official obligations and duties from government attorneys.
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When my mother left home, her family sat shivah for her, more because my father was not Jewish than because he was black.
