Cicely Tyson Quotes
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Jeff Williams, Apple's senior vice president of operations, has been called 'Tim Cook's Tim Cook' by some.
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More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers' union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
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The Land of Israel goes with the Torah of Israel under the sovereignty of the State of Israel.
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Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?
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I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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We tend to live up to our expectations.
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The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
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It used to be that Democrats and Republicans would disagree, but they could be social to each other. There were times during the year that we acted together in the good of the country.
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I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.
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When I was a kid at four years old, that's when I started amateur wrestling with my dad and family. And when that's instilled in you, it never goes away.
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The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
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No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.
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Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue.
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Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.
