Hakeem Jeffries Quotes
Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.
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I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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Of course the job has a lot of glamour. But it really is about being smarter than your average bear. Your mind is your best weapon. It's great when you're a good shot with an AK-47, but it's about being clever.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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Truthfully, I'm normally very picky about who does my hair.
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I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we think about them so much that we name a ship after them. The imaginary lives on in the real.
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Where there is love there is life; where there is life there is hope.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
