Avery Brooks Quotes
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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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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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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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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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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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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My kids did not know that Obama was the first black president. I felt like I needed to tell them because I felt like, 'How could you not know that?' But for the ones who didn't know, he was basically the only president they knew.
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...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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Focus on what you know you can do. Know what you're capable of on any given day, and what you can count on. Do the simple things well, and then use the confidence to build up the rest of your game. Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.
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I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.
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But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.
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Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream.
