Lennie James Quotes
The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.
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The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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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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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.
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Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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Taken as a whole, the Cross Correspondences and the Willet scripts are among the most convincing evidence that at present exists for life after death. For anyone who is prepared to devote weeks to studying them, they prove beyond all reasonable doubt that Myers, Gurney, and Sidgwick went on communicating after death.
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Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.
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The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.
