James P. Gorman Quotes
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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Christians are being systematically exterminated.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.
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As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.
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While the rest of the country is still talking about welfare reform, Texas is implementing it.
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I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many writers do. But writing feels natural to me; the act of it seems to free up my unconscious, so that sometimes I feel that I have access to more ideas and information than my conscious mind could think up.
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Being a farmer is a great qualification to have to serve in the United States Congress.
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We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
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Jamie Dimon is doing a great job; J.P. Morgan is a great institution.
