Arthur Ashe Quotes
I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.
Quotes to Explore
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My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
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I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.
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I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.
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Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.
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Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.
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When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.
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I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.
