John Whiting Quotes
There are a lot of African-Americans in that region of the country. We pay particular attention to these communities because historically aid doesn't get into those communities right away.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
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For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn't want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you'd say 'Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!' That's the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you'll be run over by a big red bus.
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I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.
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Why do Angelina Jolie and Bono receive overwhelming attention for their work in Africa while Nwankwo Kanu or Dikembe Mutombo, Africans both, are hardly ever mentioned?
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There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.
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There are a lot of African-Americans in that region of the country. We pay particular attention to these communities because historically aid doesn't get into those communities right away.
