Claudia Rankine Quotes
The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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Every time you load a webpage is a HTTP request. That's a lot of HTTP requests. If you are earning bitcoin on every HTTP request, that could be a lot of earned bitcoins.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
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I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.
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The tone of political assessment has changed. And honestly, the battle for the hearts and minds of the American people has taken on a bit more of a violent and narrow approach.
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Remarks by the President at the Dedication of the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (24 September 2016)
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We have been so consumed with seemingly objective discussions of politics, tactics, weapons, dollars and casualties. This is the language of sterility.
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The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.
