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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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The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
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Many people think that it is important to have a title before you begin writing the book, but I think you should never sit around waiting for the right title to strike before you start writing. Crack on with the story, put in the hard work, and the title will come eventually.
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I'm not a neat freak. I don't mind things being messy but I mind them being dirty. I just can't relax in a dirty environment. I like things organized.
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God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.
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I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.
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I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.
