John Hope Quotes
If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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You can't change the system through violence.
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I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other people seemed to think of me - as funny from a very young age. I was a very young comedy nerd and I even did sketch comedy in high school and college. I wrote and shot sketches on video and acted in them.
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I grew up with a clock radio next to my bed.
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Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.
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If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.
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If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.
