Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Quotes
I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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There's always that stigma of, 'Women shouldn't box,' or stereotypes of what a female boxer should look like. I don't think the men really have to deal with that - to tell people they're a boxer.
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Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
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Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
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As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.
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I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack.
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It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.
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If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
