Ed Smith Quotes
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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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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I had already played a lead on Broadway before I ever did a film. I had had three, four seasons of stock with good, fat parts, good supporting and leading parts. And I had done, oh, God, over 400 live TV shows.
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As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.
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China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
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War is too strange to process alone.
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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.
