Jack Ramsay Quotes
My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.
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My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.
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I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
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I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.
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I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.
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My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.
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I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.
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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
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A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.
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There was the normal high that comes from the hormones of youth, that fresh sense of being unchained. But also there was the omnipresent feeling that It could go down. In those moments-which back then were all of our moments-your neurology was always code red.
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The best thing I've ever heard another player say is, 'I hate playing against you.'
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Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.
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I think what I have is straightforwardness, unabashedness rather than charm.
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My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.
