Medgar Evers Quotes
As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I'm going to work for it - even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.
Quotes to Explore
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There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'
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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
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Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.
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As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I'm going to work for it - even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.
