Kevin Bales Quotes
Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
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Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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All good books wind up, I think, with the writer getting his teeth bashed in.
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Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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I am 100% proud Puerto Rican but have lived two-thirds of my life in the United States. So, there will be some things I write in English, but my main way of conversing with my audience is in Spanish because, at the end of the day, I'm a Latino.
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Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.
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Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.
