Edward Brooke Quotes
I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
Ban Ki-moon
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
Maggie Hassan
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
Narendra Modi
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
Pat Boone
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
Park Chan-wook
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
Zadie Smith
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
Harrison Ford
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
Nas
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
J. A. Konrath
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.
Jacky Ickx
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
Zooey Deschanel
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Immanuel Kant
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
Samantha Power
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
Adam Cohen
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My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'
W. Bruce Cameron
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
Hans Selye
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The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.
Warren Christopher
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I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.
Dawn Olivieri
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Investing in women at home and abroad strengthens families, uplifts our children, improves health, makes communities and countries more peaceful, and brightens our collective future. Where women have equality, security, and the opportunity to live, work, and prosper, their families and societies are better off.
Jan Schakowsky
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The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.
Alan Paton
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The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.
O. Henry
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
Zac Brown Band
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I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.
Edward Brooke