Manning Marable Quotes
What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book was being constructed, that [Alex] Haley was vetting - asking questions to the publisher and to the publisher's attorney regarding many of the things that Malcolm X was saying. He was worried that he would not have a book that would have the kind of sting that he wanted.Manning Marable
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
Ingrid Newkirk -
So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
Barton Gellman -
I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
Tatiana Maslany -
One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
Tablo -
Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
Walter Cronkite -
I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
Randy Houser -
Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
Caity Lotz -
I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
Oscar Taveras -
I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
Gabrielle Reece -
I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
Edith Piaf -
You lose the speed before the stamina.
Haile Gebrselassie -
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
Aaron Neville -
I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.
Eavan Boland -
What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
Dan Quayle -
An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
Ted Cruz
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Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
Bjorn Lomborg -
Most kids at that age had 4-H projects. My mother had me.
Don Sutton -
China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.
Gary Locke -
I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
Albert Camus -
What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book was being constructed, that [Alex] Haley was vetting - asking questions to the publisher and to the publisher's attorney regarding many of the things that Malcolm X was saying. He was worried that he would not have a book that would have the kind of sting that he wanted.
Manning Marable