Jesse Williams Quotes
The interesting thing about white power and the desperate white knuckling grip on this thing call whiteness, which is a myth in itself, is that black folks... we're not asking you to invent new laws for us. We're asking you to include us in the laws that are already on the books.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.
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Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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As you get older, life gets harder if you're not applying spiritual truths.
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In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God.
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The interesting thing about white power and the desperate white knuckling grip on this thing call whiteness, which is a myth in itself, is that black folks... we're not asking you to invent new laws for us. We're asking you to include us in the laws that are already on the books.
