Berhan Ahmed Quotes
There is always the fear of unknown - racism comes from people when they don't know something, they are strangers to the other side.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.
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If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
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'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.
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I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
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Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
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Focusing purely on extremism, whether in the Arab-Islamic world or the West, will not alleviate the root causes of tensions between members of different cultures. It will only alienate those who do not recognise themselves in those stereotypes, and generate fear and misunderstanding.
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The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
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You're always aware that only eight per cent of actors are in work at one time, so you've got to be thankful for the job you've got and do the best you can.
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We've been merging with tools since the beginning of human evolution, and arguably, that's one of the things that makes us human beings.
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Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.
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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
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When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.
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If I only did theatre I would have had to waitress, and I didn't want to waitress.
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In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.
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There is always the fear of unknown - racism comes from people when they don't know something, they are strangers to the other side.
