Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
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The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.
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Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
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I put out one album one week, and I'm already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.
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I was really shy growing up. I had braces, headgear, and no boobs - still don't. So, the boys weren't interested in me. The only way I could get attention was by being a goof and a dork, which meant a lot of physical comedy.
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Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through.
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Sure-hoofed is my steed impelled by the spur;The high sprigs of alder are on thy shield;Bran art thou called, of the glittering branches.
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The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
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It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.
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I called it 'Historian' because I feel like most of my creative efforts are efforts to capture something or to document it.
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Goals do not get stored in your voice message or email bin. They are not going to reach out from the world wide web and remind you they exist. As a result, our goals do not get the respect they deserve.
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It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.
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I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.
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I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.
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'Selma' is a story about voice - the voice of a great leader; the voice of a community that triumphs despite turmoil; and the voice of a nation striving to grow into a better society. I hope the film reminds us that all voices are valuable and worthy of being heard.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.
