Edwidge Danticat Quotes
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.
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Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.
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When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born.
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The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms.
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Live interviews are more difficult to distort.
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Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.
