Benjamin Todd Jealous Quotes
The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.
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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
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Go out to the last few grains of sand, the smartest of the smartest of the smartest, times a thousand. It makes sense that people would be a little odd out here. But you really have to wonder why we all end up in jail.
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There aren't really many compliments flying around with me and my friends. It's a lot of tough love. But you know, that love is there, and if you need to have a serious conversation, you just gotta wait for the right time to do it.
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The procedure has a strange Alice-in-Wonderland quality. The reservoir was created as a public water supply, yet the community, probably unconsulted about the sportsmen's project, is forced either to drink water containing poisonous residues or to pay our tax money for treatment of the water to remove the poisons - treatments that are by no means foolproof.
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In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.
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The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.
