Benjamin Todd Jealous Quotes
As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.
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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.
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I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives have shaped them and impacted them to be who they are, it's something. I mean, that's my entire life.
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Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me.
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The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
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As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.
