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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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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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I definitely would not do a reality show.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
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A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
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I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.
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In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is free from all the delays of its genetic evolution, an evolution which is consequently explained by simple psychology. The virility of knowledge increases with each conquest of the constructive abstraction.
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.
