William Julius Wilson Quotes
There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.
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I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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I've been around the bend in corporations.
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I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous. For those who want to bleach their skin, that's fine. I just didn't bleach mine. I'm a black woman. I don't want to be anything but a black woman.
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She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark.
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There's nothing worse than seeing your teammates battle, knowing you can't help.
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Concerning the loved ones who have passed on ... do not try to make me believe that they are doing nothing, merely resting, careless ever. That would imply the condition of Hell, not of Heaven.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.
