Jesse Jackson Quotes
The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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I love bayou life.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel, I could work at home.
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No century has been more concerned than ours to do away with war: it has proved signally unsuccessful. All too little attention has been given to the phenomenon that internal politics have become increasingly more warlike.
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It's difficult for people to visualize from my drawings what it's going to be, so I often find myself talking them into things that they go along with, and when they see what's been made, they are surprised.
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The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.
