I. King Jordan Quotes
I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.
 
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	I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.   
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	America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.   
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	I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.   
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	With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.   
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	I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.   
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	I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.   
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	Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.   
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	I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.   
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	The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.   
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	So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.   
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	I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.   
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	It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.   
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	I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.   
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	I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.   
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	When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.   
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	I hate wasting people's time.   
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	The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.   
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	I love London; I could totally live here, actually. I'm in New York most of the time, and it really reminds me a lot of New York.   
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	God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.   
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	My father quite honestly played no role in my decision to become an actor.   
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	If you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.   
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	I know when California Dreaming was first released, we heard it on KFWB or KHJ or something, and it was so exciting to hear the record come on the radio.   
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	I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					