Antonio Gates Quotes
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Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
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In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.
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I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
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I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.
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When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?
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I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.
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I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.
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I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!
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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
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I'm comfortable with my body and it was a creative choice. I know that might make some women feel uncomfortable, but we need to stick together instead of getting angry at each other for our choices. I think women are sensual, beautiful beings, and I feel empowered when I express myself sexually.
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He deserves it, he is a fantastic player. He has won everything, apart from the Champions League, which I am praying he can do,
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I look forward to fighting Nancy Pelosi, and I look forward to defeating Nancy Pelosi in getting the Green New Deal passed.
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When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.
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Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.
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You had to be tough in our neighborhood.
