Benjamin Todd Jealous Quotes
The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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I'm a proud family man.
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It takes madness to find out madness.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
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I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.
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I've never been one to bet on the weather.
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Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.
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I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes.
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You might not trust me. Please give me a chance and time. I will prove myself for all of you.
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In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.
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I quit it because at the end of seven years in an ensemble show with one leader, I thought: 'I will be known as 'Dallas' starring Larry Hagman and the cast.' And at this point in my career - I was in my mid to late 30s - I thought, 'Now is the time when it's hottest for me to go out and establish my thing.'
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In this job, you're constantly surrounded by people. There are a lot of demands on your time. And I guess those moments when you can switch off and get away from it are really important.
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After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.
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Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.
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The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.
