James Meredith Quotes
My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.
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If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
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My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.
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The Trump vision, in fact, is an America unbound by a half-century of trade deals, free to pursue a nationalistic approach in which success is measured not by the quality of its alliances but the economic return on its transactions.
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When I was 20, I wanted to be famous and win a Grammy and have people respect and love me.
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My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.
