Gary Johnson Quotes
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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Portraying visual impairment is difficult. I can see what's going on, but I have to act like I can see nothing. And this can be quite a challenge.
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I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
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You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
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Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
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The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
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I never saw a consistent through-line of employment for black actresses. I was like, 'How are they supporting themselves?'
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So much of my work is as Yara, not as a character. If you're attacking my work as a philanthropist or activist, you're attacking Yara. But because of "Black-ish" and this national audience we have, I get to have a larger or louder voice.
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No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of William, sorry.
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When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? 'Cause he had problems.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
