Joaquim Barbosa Quotes

Abdias do Nascimento was the first writer who gave me racial consciousness. It was through his books and writings that I first took in the real weight of race in our society. He was the main influence on me because in my family, race was never an issue.

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• In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.

  

  R. Kelly
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  • Strong
  • My Life

• I like films to be complete in their written form.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Like
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• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
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• A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Good
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• To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • People
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• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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  • Our

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Up
  • Color
  • Texas

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
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• It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Song
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• It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life and all the ups and the downs. I know we can handle it. There's nothing too big or too crazy that's going to tear us apart.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Life
  • Crazy
  • Walking

• I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
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• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

  

  Patrick Macnee
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• I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

  

  Langston Hughes
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• Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

  

  Queen Victoria
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• I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.

  

  M. Ward
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• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
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• Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.

  

  Achille Maramotti
  • Years
  • Generations
  • Five

• Being happy in your skin that's what it's all about.

  

  Koo Stark
  • Happy

• I do think the U.S. has a moral and political leadership role to play.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
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• A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
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  • Family

• If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.

  

  Vaclav Havel
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• Abdias do Nascimento was the first writer who gave me racial consciousness. It was through his books and writings that I first took in the real weight of race in our society. He was the main influence on me because in my family, race was never an issue.

  

  Joaquim Barbosa
  • Real
  • Family
  • Society