William Julius Wilson Quotes
There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.
Quotes to Explore
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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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What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.
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When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.
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Actually creating a positive school climate, particularly in schools that are in communities that are themselves not calm and orderly, is hard work.
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I kind of was frustrated with myself in the sense that I was missing easy shots.
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There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.
