Evelyn Boyd Granville Quotes
We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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When parents tell their children not to congregate on corners, especially in groups, out of fear for them encountering the police, what does that say? We have a trust problem.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.
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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
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When I was starting out, I saw it as something that was definitely going to end. Every time I came to New York for fashion week or to interview someone, I was so sad going back home because I thought, 'These things don't get to last.' That's sort of the narrative of young success.
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America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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They aren't interested in the fact that whenever they kick up dirt, the dirt rubs off on every one of us.
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I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.
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Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.
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I do pottery. I love it. It's very relaxing; it takes me to another planet.
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I think that having a job in journalism, despite all of the changes, is still a fantastic way to be - make a living observing your society and having a chance to use your voice.
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We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.
