John Hope Franklin Quotes
If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
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Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
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Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
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It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.
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The restructuring theme can be of various kinds. Some amount of debt gets serviced out of cash flows, some gets back-ended and resolved with sale of non-core assets of the company, and some debt gets converted into equity which might today look like a haircut.
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Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.
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If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
