Jesse Jackson Quotes
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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There is inspiration all around us.
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
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To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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Growing up as a child actress, there was much I got to do and yet so much that I missed out on. Therefore, when I had kids, I made it a point to make sure that they could do anything and everything that they dreamed of. A great education was definitely right at top of my list!
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It's funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is, that people are lining up for food. That is a good thing! In other countries people don't line up for food: the rich get the food and the poor starve to death.
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The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.
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In Brooklyn, all the kids call me the 'Willy Wonka of the Hood.'
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
