Henry Hampton Quotes
If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.
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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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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.
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The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
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I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
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Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
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Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that way.
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I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers -
History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.
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You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams.
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The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.
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If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.
