Jesse Jackson Quotes
There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would never tell you I don't. I love fried chicken or mac and cheese. Do I order them all the time when I'm out at restaurants? No, though I do have one splurge meal a week.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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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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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
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I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.
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I was not much good as a waitress.
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Now, more than ever, the international community must act.
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There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
