Harry Belafonte Quotes
I could have made $2bn or $3bn - and ended up with some very cruel addiction - but I chose to be a civil rights warrior instead.

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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.
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We love our fans and are very connected with our fans.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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I have no guitar technique.
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We live in the world's greatest democracy; we want for nothing. And that which we want, we can work toward achieving.
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Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.
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I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It's kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.
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It's going to be a few years before you see us again. People are fed up with us, and so are we.
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I could have made $2bn or $3bn - and ended up with some very cruel addiction - but I chose to be a civil rights warrior instead.