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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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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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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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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When you ride fast and then rest for a bit, it causes a spike in your heart rate and helps your body deal with lactic acid. But you don't need to make it too complicated. Yorkshire is perfect because the hills work as intervals - you ride up them hard and then recover before the next one. Or you can just sprint to the next tree or lamppost.
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Sexiness is about confidence and individuality. I can't keep my eyes off the women you see in cities like London, New York and Paris - the way they carry themselves and put themselves together are always so unique.
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Erik Spoelstra has always been a guy I'd talk to even when he was just doing video clips for the Heat.
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One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.
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There are a lot of columnists who get out and opine.
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I have a life beyond performance. I love it, and it probably is the better part of my life, but I do have another life.
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There are only about four hundred people in New York society.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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Don't take things too seriously.
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We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.
