Avery Brooks Quotes
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I'm a nationalist. I'm a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I'm a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I'm a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I'm a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I'm patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.
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My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will... that come at you early because the firms need you.
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While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.
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Republicans want to use Obamacare in the 2014 elections against Democrats who voted for it. They want to see it fail, even at the expense of people's health.
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We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.
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Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream.
