Beverly Jenkins Quotes
Two years ago, the Supreme Court handed down an 8–1 decision that found the 1875 Civil Rights unconstitutional.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
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Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.
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Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
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It's nice to be needed.
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Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.
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For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.
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Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen.
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Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
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I was a comic book nut. For real. I still have a collection in my closet.
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It's called 'John Wick' - it's really about this guy's very simple journey. We just didn't want to clutter it. It's gratifying it in its own right, in its simplicity.
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A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
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I don't want to get burned when I'm cooking. To avoid getting hit when pan-frying, I stand far away and use chopsticks that are almost two feet long. I learned it from my mom, who does the same thing.
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And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
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To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.
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We cannot superimpose on any conflict very simple, borrowed and ready-made solutions ... The Americans constructed a simplistic paradigm for our peace process. And they expected everybody to think like Americans, to behave like Americans.
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I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.
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Two years ago, the Supreme Court handed down an 8–1 decision that found the 1875 Civil Rights unconstitutional.
