John Henrik Clarke Quotes
I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.
Quotes to Explore
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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I believe whatever smart, ambitious people are working on will be the trend of the future. I do think that it's worth thinking critically about what the future will be.
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I dug deep, and I found that there were people who voted for Obama and then voted for Trump - because they saw what they believed was going to be hope and change, and under Obama, their particular lives did not change.
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I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.
