George Canning Quotes
And finds, with keen, discriminating sight,Black ’s not so black,-nor white so very white.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.
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You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
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Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.
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Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.
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The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.
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I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.
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And finds, with keen, discriminating sight,Black ’s not so black,-nor white so very white.
