Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Quotes
Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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I've always done more than I ever thought I would. Becoming a professor - I never would have imagined that. Writing books - I never would have imagined that. Getting a Ph.D. - I'm not sure I would even have imagined that. I've lived my life a step at a time. Things sort of happened.
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
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We need to have a discussion on race, but we also need to have a discussion on how we are treating poor and minority people in this country.
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Americans are quite skeptical about the goal of promoting democracy. People feel it's a desirable goal, but, from a commonsense point of view, both Republicans and Democrats have come to the conclusion that democracy is something that countries can only come to on their own.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
