John Henrik Clarke Quotes
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.
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I don't want people to think you have to look a certain way or be a certain mold to be able to be a quarterback.
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Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
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Although I was quiet as a child, I had this resistless passion inside of me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.
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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.
