E. Lynn Harris Quotes
I want people to know they don’t have to live their lives in a permanent ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ existence. Truth is a powerful tool.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.
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The media is controlled.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.
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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.
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To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
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Fashion is something I've always been interested in... I used to watch the Oscars but paid no attention to the awards... It wasn't until I started attending red carpet events and was flown out to Paris for my first show, and saw how much is put into it all, that I had this new appreciation for everything.
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Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person who calls himself merciful, or just, or kindly. Usually these are the most cruel, niggardly and selfish people, and slaves learn to fear the master who prefaces his remarks with tributes to his own virtues.
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I want people to know they don’t have to live their lives in a permanent ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ existence. Truth is a powerful tool.
