Jesse Jackson Quotes

See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.

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• When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
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• Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Dress

• I think there's no greater healing power than music.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
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  • Power
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• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • May
  • Truth
  • Day

• It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
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• Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • World
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• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

  Umberto Eco
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  • Internet
  • Television

• 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.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Man

• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Music
  • Why
  • Know

• I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Night
  • Singing
  • Smoking

• It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Generation

• Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Time
  • Important
  • Nice

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
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  • Equality

• With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • World
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• Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

  

  Vikas Swarup
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• When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Life
  • Real
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• Indiana's governor is coming under fire for a new law that some people feel is anti-gay. The governor now says he is not anti-gay. Then immediately afterwards he said, 'April Fools.' It wasn't his best joke.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Law
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• Justice, I think, is the tolerable accomodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accomodations concretely.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Justice

• Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Power
  • Control
  • Communication

• People are scared to make something that doesn't look like another film that made a lot of money. It means we get 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' made again and again.

  

  Billy Boyd
  • People
  • Money
  • Funeral

• A patient must have a terminal diagnosis to be admitted to such a facility.

  

  Andrea Phillips
  • Patient
  • Diagnosis
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• See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • People
  • Black
  • Faith