Gerald Horne Quotes
I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly.
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My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
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On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
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My scientific pursuits have led to many opportunities and responsibilities beyond those of simply doing research. For example, as a beginning graduate student, it never occurred to me that the life of a scientist could involve so much travel, something that I have always loved.
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The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.
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As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
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Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it.
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I do feel like 'The Dark Knight' is a great film, but that Batman in there? He's almost like Robocop to me. He's almost robotic looking; he's got this surgical approach to everything... He's almost not human. That's supposed to be his whole point: he's supposed to be the most human of superheroes.
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Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.
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I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.
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Those who know me would say I'm a passionate and hard-working mom and a community leader who knows how to get things done.
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Acting is a community where you come in and out of each other's lives. I'm slightly envious of the Golden Age of Hollywood. It must have been frustrating to be owned by the studio, but it was also like being in a company, working with the same people, and that appeals to me.
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I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly.
