Gerald Horne Quotes
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.
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I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.
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I want to serve the people.
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I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.
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I think between 2014 and 2015, I made weight five times in 11 months. During that time, I felt my body change. It was able to hold on to more weight. And anybody who makes weight knows that it gets harder and harder to make weight once you've done it that many times.
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We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.
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Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
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We can just keep doing it the way we’re doing it. We can attack everybody for small-minded things and crush everybody with a new idea. And where are we going to be? Where we are now – behind. Or we can embrace new things and try to be positive and let everybody play a role.
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Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to be cool or be what you're expected to be. There's a need for a song that puts that in perspective. I think that's an important thing for young children to hear growing up.
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I think we need to de-center the idea of US sovereignty.
