Gary Coleman Quotes
I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.
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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
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Alaskans are basically 'leave me alone' type people who respect and embrace different strokes.
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When I interviewed John McCain in 2000 about whether he had taken medication for his anger, I remember thinking, 'Let's see how this is going to work.'
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When my generation, those early days of television - I know I've been thinking about this lately - my two flashes of me as a little boy. One, I'm standing in front of the radio freaking out that Nat King Cole's singing 'Lady of Spain', just this stuff coming out of the radio, and Guy Williams singing 'Wild Horses' coming out of the radio.
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Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.
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I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.