Jesse Jackson Quotes
The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
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If you're certain, you're certainly wrong, because nothing deserves certainty.
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It's very difficult to set a film in one setting without giving the audience some intensity and some relief.
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I don't want to be poor, of course. But I try not to make that the guiding force behind whether I choose to do something or not.
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Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos.
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He is so vain that he wants to figure in history as the settler of all the great questions; but a Parliamentary constitution is not favorable to such ambitions; things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
