Vernon Jordan Quotes
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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.
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I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
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People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
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My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs.
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I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
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I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.
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A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.
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Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.
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You always invest the money you earn. That's the only way you can really speed up your fortune.
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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When there is a fight between your heart and your head, experience has taught me that the best thing you can do is pick up your Bible and remind yourself of what God says.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
