Jackie Robinson Quotes
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.
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Ὤμοι, κακὸν μὲν πρῶτον ἀγγέλλειν κακά.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm goes off.
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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
