John Lewis (John Robert Lewis) Quotes
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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I just want to have a nice, happy life.
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
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I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats.
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Somebody showed me a picture of some event I went to back in the day, and I was really going heavy on the turquoise jewelry, and it was not good. I was like, 'OK, I guess that was a phase that needed to happen.'
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
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When I feel really insecure, or I'm in a social situation where I'm nervous about how I come off, or I'm trying to control the situation too much, I literally just try and use the same muscles that I had to use on stage - just paying attention to the other person and trusting yourself to respond as emotionally honestly as possible.
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When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.
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To Africanize colonial and capitalist power would destroy the meaning of our struggle.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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We doubt not the destiny of our country - that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.
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A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king.
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You have to change musically. Bubble gum pop was good for the first time you have sex. They didn't want to give the OK on some really good music. It was the frustration of being signed to that label. I was depressed.
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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
