Lynn Nottage Quotes
I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative.Lynn Nottage
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
Orison Swett Marden -
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. Wells -
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
Naveen Jain -
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
H. Rap Brown -
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
S. Truett Cathy -
For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic '70s, this image will be proven wrong when Mom and Dad remarry... Make no mistake. This is not to emphasize the sadness of my demise but rather emphasize the love of my family and friends.
Lance Loud
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From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.
Narendra Modi -
The American fans would love to see me fight anybody.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.
Tamara Tunie -
I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
Ted Kotcheff -
The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.
Randall Kennedy -
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
Zebulon Pike
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When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
Rand Paul -
I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.
Fernando Alonso -
There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
Val Kilmer -
We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
Rand Paul -
As we know, all sports evolve tremendously, and our sport is no different. It's really not the same thing at all as it was in 1972. It's a different type of horse we're using. The style of riding is quite evolved, the way the courses are built, the materials used... it's virtually unrecognizable.
Ian Millar -
The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
Aaron McGruder
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You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Wendell Phillips -
Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.
Max von Sydow -
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
Sai Baba -
I love being in the studio. If I'm at home, I will go to the studio pretty much every day anyway. It's just something that I like to do.
Martin Gore Depeche Mode -
One thing I didn't think upon getting married: that my style would - or could - change.
Leandra Medine -
I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative.
Lynn Nottage