Tamala Jones Quotes
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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For me, the scale of the budget is part of the creative process. 'Swingers' is the movie it is because we made it for exactly the right budget. Had it been made for a higher number, it would not have been as imaginative as we had to make it, given the budget constraints we had.
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I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.
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My sister is my sister regardless - has always been and always will be and has no choice about it. This is a love quite distinct from that of a lover, with whom we fall in love, in part, because they are free and have a choice.
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Jerusalem is not just a beautiful city: the challenge is to show that Jerusalem can be shared in peace and respect.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!
