Barack Obama Quotes
Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk about something like reparations.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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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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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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I've been on sets my whole life.
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Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
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We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
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A book is not merely a fossil or treasure from some phase of the past. It's right reading - not the words from without, but the thought from within - it is a spell by which you may recall the past, re-enter it when you will.
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Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.
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Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk about something like reparations.
