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 was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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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 feel really lucky. There wasn't a doubt in my mind when Phil asked me to marry him.
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Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth way than most kids that loved movies at that time. I'd find a filmmaker or something and want to see all his movies.
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I tend not to look at my work after I've done it. In fact, the only time I typically get to review it is when the fans bring up comics at shows, and I kind of flip through it and be like, 'Oh, I remember doing this!'
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.
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The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.
