Cleve Jones Quotes
Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they're - they are gay or transgender.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.
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I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.
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If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
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President Obama made the right choice, over one million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, the president said, 'I've got your back.'
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I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.
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I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
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I've never made a penny being a doctor, so that makes it not a job. My sense of a doctor is that one is a presence caring for health. So I'm never not a doctor. People call me from all over the world who are hurting, and I care for them. Chatting is what more people want than anything.
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I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
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I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.
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I have to extend my admiration and respect for Sam Esmail, who is a visionary with what he's done with 'Mr. Robot,' and this brilliant resurgence of Christian Slater only helped us get where we are today - very talented individual.
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Freediving can be extremely dangerous. It's got an incredibly high fatality rate outside of competition. But there's never been a fatality in competition. In terms of spear fishing and people who train by themselves, it's the second most dangerous sport in the world after base jumping. If you black out by yourself, you drown.
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Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's really an opening up.
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We're both damaged property, I guess.Plenty of time for renovation.
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We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.
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Being unapologetic about my body, my sexuality, my life's decisions is a political belief that, as a feminist, I strongly espouse.
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We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.
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Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they're - they are gay or transgender.
