William Pickens Quotes
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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I understand how the economy actually works.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.
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What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.
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Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.
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I was possessed by London.
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I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
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A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.
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Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
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In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.
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The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
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Just as Jesus called out Peter as being of the devil for tempting him to take an easy way out, I believe such thoughts originate from the same place of fear. We can’t imagine how we’ll get through such a painful ordeal, so we want to take the first way out we see. We don’t want to have to suffer, uncertain of when—or if—we will come out the other side.
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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
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We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people.
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. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.
