Jean-Luc Godard Quotes
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.
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Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.
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Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
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'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.
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Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.
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I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.
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There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine, A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.
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When I'm hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.
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People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.
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When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
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Every edit is a lie.
