Jesse Jackson Quotes
Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
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Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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If you really want it, you need to really work for it.
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We all want to be loved. We all want to feel accepted. We all want to feel content. And life is hard.
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What do you think of those two?
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Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.
