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Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.
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Growing up in the north of Holland, I had a healthy and balanced diet.
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It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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I kind of like to keep it very minimal. I get a lot of products sent to me, and I like to try them, but I end up just literally washing my face and putting on moisturizer and toner.
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I walked the streets of New York; I would feel the presence of Daredevil. I would see him up on the rooftop. What you are doing in your life, you start to see in your book. It all starts to merge together.
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Most times when I do a film, it starts out with one idea and ends up not being what I thought it was going to be.
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I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding.
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The first thing I do when I wake up is cardio on an empty stomach. I'll just drink water, or maybe I'll have a black coffee with no sugar, and I'll do about 25 minutes of cardio, six days a week.
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I didn't grow up in a house - we moved a lot, and we always lived in apartments. But we looked a lot; we went to open houses almost every weekend. I think that's why I always wanted a house.
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I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.
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That's the sign of a good relationship, when you can pick up a phone and it doesn't matter when the last time you spoke was.
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The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
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In the early '90s, I was finishing up my adolescence. I visited my local comic-book store on a weekly basis, and one week I found a book on the stands called 'Xombi,' published by Milestone Media.
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Every morning when I wake up, I dedicate myself to helping others to find peace of mind. Then, when I meet people, I think of them as long term friends; I don't regard others as strangers.
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I think the only person who will ever lose in a fight and still end up making a million dollars is Conor McGregor - that's just because of how his contract is structured or whatever.
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I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."
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Watching Mum work hard made me do the same. I've watched her since I was little, and I've picked up on how hard she works and the fire she has in her belly.
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I'm a Detroit kid who grew up with that assembly line mentality: You go to work to make money.
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Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.
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When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.
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In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.
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I like playmakers, man, if it's a playmaker on defense or offense, just a guy who is going to put up some points, a guy who's going to be able to change the game.
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Anytime you get to go up against guys that have done well in this league, who have dominated in this league, you have got to rise to the challenge.
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Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.
