Jimmy Haslam Quotes
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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Leadership means setting a moral tone.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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I want to go down in history.
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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.
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They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history.
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Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
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I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.
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There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
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If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.
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The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.
