Jesse Jackson Quotes
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
Quotes to Explore
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they're visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice - whether or not they're to be taken seriously.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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We think it necessary that an active and meaningful dialogue on this topic be resumed with the new U.S. administration as soon as possible
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We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!
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I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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If you can find ways to give people hope that they can achieve something or make a difference, then there's an opportunity for something good to happen.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
