Jackie Robinson Quotes
I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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Mr. Balanchine wanted me to be myself. He didn't want me to look like anyone else. I love teaching our company dancers the Balanchine ballets. I try to give them what was passed down to me and what I learned from him. They dance it so beautifully. It also keeps me close to Mr. Balanchine. He's with me every single day.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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We are the raison d'être of the entire system. We are also the employers of those in public office and in the public service. Why should we accept from them a discourse which suggests contempt for us and for the democratic system?
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Uncommon valor was a common virtue.
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I was with my wife for five years before we got married, so we've been together since I was 22.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
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I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
