Alex Campbell Quotes
Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.
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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.
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In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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If ever we deserved a candidate at this moment in our culture, that candidate is Donald Trump.
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My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.
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By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
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Being a third-generation Mexican-American and speaking English exclusively, I heard Spanish spoken by my relatives all my life, especially when they didn't want me to understand what they were talking about.
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I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
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We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.
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At my shows, I like everyone to have a good time... but, I like for us to be real because there's freedom in that.
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There is no such thing as a failed soldier, dead or alive (unless he acted in a cowardly manner)-likewise there is no such thing as a failed entrepreneur or failed scientific researcher ...
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Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.
