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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Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
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I just want to keep challenging myself. Keep moving the goalposts and raising my game.
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I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.
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I'll leave my house if I need to. Otherwise I'm super comfortable in my own space, in my own company.
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A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.
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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
