Jo Becker Quotes
This is how a revolution begins. It begins when someone grows tired of standing idly by, waiting for history's arc to bend toward justice, and instead decides to give it a swift shove. It begins when a black seamstress named Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in the segregated South.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.
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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
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I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
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Not all information is beneficial.
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This is how a revolution begins. It begins when someone grows tired of standing idly by, waiting for history's arc to bend toward justice, and instead decides to give it a swift shove. It begins when a black seamstress named Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in the segregated South.
