Joshua Oppenheimer (Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer) Quotes
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.
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Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.
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Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.
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Different times need different types of leadership.
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
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My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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My nan tells me to eat her fish balls and not drink alcohol. I'd rather have the fish balls.
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Community of women is a condition which belongs entirely to bourgeois society and which today finds its complete expression in prostitution. But prostitution is based on private property and falls with it. Thus, communist society, instead of introducing community of women, in fact abolishes it.
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.
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I'm okay I'm okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause i'm telling you the truth I mean this i'm okay. Trust me... I'm not okay... Well okay i'm not okay. I'm not o-f cking-kay
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We have to support truth and reconciliation and some form of justice.
