Alex Haley Quotes
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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I don't mind about the boos from the audience.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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The most important thing as a filmmaker, the hardest journey you'll have, is to find your point of view.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.
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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
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Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.
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Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
