Bernice L. McFadden Quotes
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.
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We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.
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The pitch for the show, the real pitch, when Larry and I went to NBC in 1988, was we want to show how a comedian gets his material. The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later, and Larry and I to this day are surprised that it caught on as a way that people describe the show, because to us it's the opposite of that.
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If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.
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Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.' It doesn't happen for people.
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Instagram has a faster chance of reaching me than CNN, and if I really want to know what's going on, I refresh my Twitter feed.
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Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
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Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.
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When we don't unite, we do a terrible job.
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I'm always pushing back against the last thing I did in some way, and some of that is restlessness and a sense of limited time.
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Most actors and actresses are consumed by careers and getting ahead.
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Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
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I think I was able to talk to people about values in ways that people - in ways that resonated with folks.
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A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.
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Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
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The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.
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That’s who we were, wartorn meadows on the verge of new growth.
