Evelyn Boyd Granville Quotes
We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.
Evelyn Boyd Granville
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Karen Mills
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
Eddie Huang
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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.
Gary Wolf
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
Sally Mann
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
Camille Paglia
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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.
Oona Chaplin
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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.
Rahm Emanuel
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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.'
Aaron Sorkin
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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.
Karen Mills
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
Samuel Butler
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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.
Carlton Fisk
