Kevin Young Quotes
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
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If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.
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To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.
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I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.
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My brain doesn't like to be quiet.
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MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.
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I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.
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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
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There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.
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I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
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They sniffed, poor things, for their green fields,They cried so loud I could not sleep:For fifty thousand shillings downI would not sail again with sheep.
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He's put a lock on the door of the House of Commons and he refuses to face the people of Canada through their elected representatives
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A pre-emptive war in 'defense' of freedom would surely destroy freedom, because one simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.
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I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
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In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants.
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I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.
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I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'
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Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
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We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. Nothing should be dearer to the seeker of truth than the truth itself, and there is no deterioration of the truth, nor belittling either of one who speaks it or conveys it
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I was a professor for 20 years, 12 of those at Emory University.
