Benjamin Todd Jealous Quotes
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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I was a dogged reporter.
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'The Five' is so special is because we all have such diverse backgrounds. It's such a nice mix of men, of women, and the variety of where we come from, different walks of life, different occupations, and certainly different viewpoints. That's what makes it so unique.
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Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.
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It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
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No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
