John Henrik Clarke Quotes
My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.
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I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)
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I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.
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Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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We ignore the similarities between the religious extremism and ethno-nationalism at our peril.
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My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.
