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 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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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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Subsidies on petroleum products and fertilizers should be phased out in a defined, time-bound manner. The resources that would get freed up could then be used to fund various social sector programmes in education, healthcare and other priority sectors.
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There is an English saying that the king is always happy, or, 'happy as the king' - which is not true at all. But I can be as happy as a king if all of you know what is right and what is wrong and cooperate to fix things.
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I wanted to stimulate thought instead of throwing things out or try to give a perspective. I just put stuff up and it's up for two or three weeks and I get tired of it, so I take it down and put something else up.
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Three of Newt Gingrich's 'Five Principles of American Civilization' deal with business, technology, and organization - all characteristics of work. There is no mention of liberty or equality or, for that matter, of democracy.
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Every edit is a lie.
