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 want the single player experience.
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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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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
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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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There are a few people who genuinely see the best in everyone.
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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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My mom did not have money. She was a single mom, on and off in periods between marriages. My husband, however, grew up on a wonderful farm in Tuscany, in Florence, and his family was so entertaining in terms of growing their own food and using the fruit of their land. We have very, very different experiences.
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I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.
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If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.
