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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
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It's always fun to agree to be in a movie when you have no idea what it's actually going to be!
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What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.
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The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
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My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
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I loved music and dance, and that was exciting to me.
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If it must be done, it's best done bravely.
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I just like the people and the culture of Southeast Asia.
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The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.
