Jayson Blair Quotes
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
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Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.
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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
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One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.
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I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.
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Life is short and progress is slow.
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Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.
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I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
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Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.
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One forgets how human murderers are.
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Evils draw men together.
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I have people I love and trust on my team. And I'm lucky my family is incredibly talented in a variety of ways.
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I was raised by women.
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I met a zillion people through Ronnie Wood. He's been my friend since he was in The Faces, and he's still my best friend. A real person, earthy, working 24 hours a day, uplifting to be around, and he's still got that fire about music.
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I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
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I was in a special class in high school for truants. They made us stay together all day. Once a week, they would send us to a guidance counselor. He would sit me in his office and he would try to talk to me.
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You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.
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Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality. The summation of this indefinable net of your feeling, knowledge and experience. Take colour as a totality of relations within a framecolour is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.
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It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.
