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 hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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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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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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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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Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
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Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.
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A lot of my characters are people who are, in essence, lying to themselves. They present one thing, when in reality they're another thing. Maybe they're not as tough or as cool as they want to be.
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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.
