Cory Booker Quotes
I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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I want to be a major force.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
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Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
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For someone who has been so important to my career, I have had absolutely no interaction with O.J. Simpson one-on-one in my whole life. I've tried many times. I have written him in prison, I've had other contact ... but he never responded, so I have never had a conversation with O.J. Simpson, never met the guy.
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The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.'
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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
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I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.
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I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care.
