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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
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I won't join another band again.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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I love basketball.
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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They hate whom they fear.
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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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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.
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I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
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You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
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I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.
