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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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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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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It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.
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One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.
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Benzedrine often helps a case run.
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Ye-es. Barkis is willin'.
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Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion.
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There are so many ways to talk with the people who appreciate my help.
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Jamie Dimon is doing a great job; J.P. Morgan is a great institution.
