Usher Quotes
I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and dark. I began to look at who I am, who I was, where I come from, what my culture is, and who I am as an African-American person in America.
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During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
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In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.
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I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
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What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
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I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.
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I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
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Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.
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I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
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The world wants to like America.
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Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.
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She’d once asked a black psychologist whose house she’d cleaned on Long Island about black people’s attachment to clothes. She’d told Blanche it probably was partly due to African peoples’ belief in body adornment in a spiritual way, and partly because, consciously or unconsciously, black people in America hoped clothes would make them acceptable to people who hated them no matter what they wore.
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I'm told that I look like a nice girl. But, yes, I do a full contact sport, and when people ask what I do, they are a bit surprised when I say, 'A martial art, a full contact sport.'
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The squares of the periodic times are proportional to the cubes of the mean distances from the sun.
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I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and dark. I began to look at who I am, who I was, where I come from, what my culture is, and who I am as an African-American person in America.
