Albert Meltzer Quotes
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.
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It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.
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In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
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A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
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I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was Shirley Temple, and I didn't ever feel like I could live up to that.
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Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.
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If you look at my bookings, they've gone down each season. That's something I'm trying to keep improving. On the pitch you don't want any silly bookings.
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I'm an honest guy.
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If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.
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No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.
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We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who are less fortunate. But really, true charity is much, much more. Real charity is not something you give away; it is something that you acquire and make a part of yourself. And when the virtue of charity becomes implanted in your heart, you are never the same again.
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I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study dance, slept on the floor, ate nothing, waitressed - and then there was a Mary J. Blige audition.
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We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
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If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about.
