John F. Kennedy Quotes
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My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
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My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.
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Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean share a cultural heritage based on centuries of common history. And what is more, we share the same values and world view. We believe in a world order that is based on cooperation, on regionalism, on multilateralism.
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What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
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I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.
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You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
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I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.
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At some point, you got to stop caring about people's expectations and care only about your expectations of yourself.
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Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.
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Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
