Colin Firth Quotes
People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.
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I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.
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What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people over here, thinking they are going to come in and get amnesty.
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When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.
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I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.
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One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon." Poor people don't even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they're not successful.
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I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
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For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.
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The rich do not want people who come from poor families to rise to the highest position in the country.
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People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.
