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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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 didn't become one.. .As long as I can remember I've always been one.
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Theorists of journalism have long noted parallels to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in physics: by reporting on something, one subtly but irrevocably changes it.
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Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.
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So Am I' is about loving yourself, being different, being an outcast and not fitting in the format that society wants to put us in - just celebrating what really makes you different.
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Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.
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Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core part of my brain.
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We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.
