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• The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • History
  • Nation
  • Immigrants

• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Happy
  • Proud
  • Care

• You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Mistakes

• You think about taking audiences on a journey.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Think
  • You
  • Journey

• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• I'm a good Catholic boy.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Good
  • Boy
  • Catholic

• We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Look

• I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Win

• I want to give my followers a positive message. I want to give those girls a positive message who have been forcefully married, who continue to sacrifice. I want to be an example for those people. That's my aim.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • People
  • Positive
  • Sacrifice

• I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Great
  • Young
  • Great Things

• It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mind
  • Me
  • View

• I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Way
  • Confidence
  • Personality

• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • World
  • True
  • Friend

• Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

  

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • Culture
  • You
  • See

• 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.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Inspiration
  • Stories
  • Movies

• It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Together
  • Death
  • Lead

• My mother and father just taught me the basics: to be really kind, to really listen to people. I have never been one to put on airs and graces.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • People
  • Mother
  • Father

• I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.

  

  Geoff Downes Yes
  • Music
  • Art
  • Technology

• I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

  

  Alvin Lee
  • Dad
  • Listening
  • Inspired

• If I give you the right conditions to work, and I put you in a beautiful place, where you feel a little bit better about yourself because you know your work is being used for something greater than producing a profit, maybe you will get more creative; maybe you will want to work more.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• I want to be remembered for the good work that I've done, for the positive work, and as somebody who was innovative and who people enjoyed.

  

  Evan Ross
  • Work
  • Remembered
  • Enjoyed

• I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Work
  • Right
  • Wanted