Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I don't like meeting bands that I like, because in the slight case that they might not be cool, it kind of ruins it for me.
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We want to open digg up to just about anyone and everyone that wants to express their interest in any type of news story or Web content.
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Honestly, I just wear what makes me feel good. So many people come up to me, and they're like, 'Did you know you're a tomboy? You should try wearing dresses.'
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My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
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A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point, to have a bunch of different ventures.
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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
