John Lewis (John Robert Lewis) Quotes
You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
John Lewis
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I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.
Sally Phillips
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
Edie Falco
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.
Natasha Trethewey
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.
Lapo Elkann
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Is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?
Pablo Neruda
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Francis Bacon
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Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.
William Powell
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The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.
Michelangelo
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So there was one point I thought I was gonna lose it, but once I get on something I have to finish it; I just kept persuading them and they turned around. One good thing was the international guys really stood behind this movie, they thought they could support this film. So these guys step up and that's really good, and then they turned around.
Ang Lee
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde
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I look for our freshmen to contribute a lot in the relays. We also need them to get into the finals in their respective events, to knock other people out of position to score. Some of the younger athletes, like Lauren Scott , Steven Bach and Terrell Thompson , have the ability to do that. At the Big Ten meet, I tell all of our athletes to focus on beating bodies, not on jumping a certain distance or running a certain time. If you focus on beating people, those things will come.
Jack Warner
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
Mac Thornberry
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You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
John Lewis
