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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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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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.
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My parents had never been to Germany. But I knew what I didn't want to write about, and I didn't want to write about Edinburgh. A lot of writers find Edinburgh fascinating, but I never did. As a matter of fact, I couldn't wait to get away from it.
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My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.
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You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.
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Shows have a tendency to end when they're over. 'The Dukes of Hazzard' has not ended for the fans, and it has not ended for the cast or the crew, and I'm very proud to be a part of that.
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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.
