Yaphet Kotto Quotes
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I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
Oprah Winfrey
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
V. S. Naipaul
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Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
Tamron Hall
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I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.
Natalia Kills
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College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
Ilyasah Shabazz
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I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
Barbara Steele
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Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
Eddie Trunk
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In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.
Karrine Steffans
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Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
Jack Dangermond
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
Warren Ellis
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I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.
Dana Perino
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
Sam Donaldson
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
Barry Sonnenfeld
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You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.
Dan Levitan
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When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
Bart Stupak
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When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.
Ed Smith
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
Idris Elba
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Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads.
Randy Houser
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Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.
Laura Miller
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I was the Republican governor of the heavily Democratic state of New Mexico. I focused on good government, and I got it done - just like my running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld. The people of New Mexico reelected me by a comfortable margin. Ditto for Weld.
Gary Johnson
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I grew up in Northern Ireland, in the middle of nowhere, and when you are poor, you are really poor. And when you are rich, you are very rich. This is not a new phenomenon.
Jonathan Anderson
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln
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I like doing business in a black city.
Yaphet Kotto