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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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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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I lived a very don't-ask, don't-tell life.
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I think I have this responsibility to my father’s generation, and especially future generations.
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The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
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Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.
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I believe that we should stop the immigration, the mass immigration from Islamic countries.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
