Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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I think music sharing of any kind is great.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.'
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As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.
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We need criminal justice reform. You have heard people talk about that all over the country. I was able to work on that specific issue at home.
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As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
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I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie.
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
