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The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist. Dinaw Mengestu
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The fact is, African Americans have not benefited equally from the improvements that are making a difference. Durado Brooks
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I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed. Aasif Mandvi
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My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America. Toyin Odutola
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Now I've devoted my life to making sure that I can be a trailblazer for any other African American kids or any other gay kids or any other kids that just feel weird or uncomfortable and have their own issues and don't know how to express themselves. I want to be like a beacon for those kids now. Todrick Hall
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Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone's career ebbs and flows, especially if you're African American. That's the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp. Erik King
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The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.
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While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did. Eric Holder
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The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name. Kandyse McClure
common relation interest
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests. Agnes Repplier
common eyes gleam mind shine thy within
The eyes of us two shine like honey, our foreheads gleam like ointment. Place me within thy heart; may one mind be in common to us both!
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The fact is, we've worked so hard to get to the point where we finally see revenues, we would sure like to be able to keep it and put it to common use for our residents. O. J. Simpson
common endowments received
The Celtic, Galatian, or Gallic nation received from the common mother endowments different from those of its Italian, Germanic, and Hellenic sisters. Theodor Mommsen
common musician taylor
Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift. Tom Odell
common enjoyed wisdom
I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom. Stefan Hell
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It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Ted Cruz
common-sense brain important
Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear. Diane von Furstenberg
common-sense common theory
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. David Deutsch
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We have never had such an intense, frank and profound debate in the past seven years, Hugo Chavez
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Whenever you debate, you should really have one person representing I.D. on one side and 10,000 scientists on the other. That would give a fair representation of the division of opinion in the scientific community. Kenneth Miller
debate due others referendum
We want others to know that the debate is not over and we want another referendum in due course.
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The real debate around this witch hunt isnt between us and the Vatican, its between the Vatican and the truth,
debate
There is a lot of debate right now about who will have the right approach,
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Even before September 11, there was a debate in the administration about whether or not military force should be used to oust Saddam Hussein. You're not going to find one person in the top echelons of the foreign policy and national security establishment in the U.S. government who's going to say that Saddam Hussein should not be out of power.
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This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy. Eric Alterman
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The debate [in Undeniable] was nominally about creationism as a "viable" explanation for what we observe around us. For my side, the debate went very well; I'm not sure what I would change, although I can imagine shortening my answers during the rebuttals, perhaps. Bill Nye
debate invention
Do not debate! is one of my inventions. Deng Xiaoping
gender difficulty speakers
All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words. Bernard Pivot
gender kids mental pressure situation
Mental preparation is key. I don't think it's a gender thing. It is a lot of pressure for these kids to be out there. If you put yourself in that situation as an adult, it's a lot of pressure. Kids think about 'What if I miss?' That's hard.
gender-gap political gaps
I have been studying women's political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris. Eleanor Smeal
gender wells draws
I don't admit that a woman draws that well! Edgar Degas
gender patriarchy
Patriarchy has no gender. bell hooks
gender made feels
Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted. Barbara Bush
gender looked none
None of us looked at it as a gender thing.
gender hide simple truth
Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.' Susan Griffin
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UNIFEM is proud to have supported the Ministry of Gender and Development, and women's organizing throughout Liberia to reach this truly historic achievement. Noeleen Heyzer
perhaps studied
You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is. Azim Premji
perhaps written
The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
perhaps policy using
Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept. Oliver Kahn
perhaps stockholm suffering
Perhaps we are all suffering from Stockholm syndrome, Juan Carlos
perhaps step
Perhaps this is the first step on a long road. David Brown
perhaps spending
Perhaps this is how she is spending her capital,
perhaps urgency week
Obviously, there is a sense of urgency about this week that's very special, that perhaps is different. Lloyd Carr
perhaps prescribed
Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients. Irving Kirsch
perhaps receiving turns
It turns out that popularity is scary. I don't feel comfortable receiving so much attention from people; perhaps that's because I'm just a kampong boy. Andrea Hirata
rigid
I'm almost a vegetarian. I have a very rigid exercise routine. I'm up at 6 A.M.; I take a lot of ginseng. John Tesh
rigidity
Be aware that rigidity imprisons. Madeleine L'Engle
rigidity
Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin. Wilhelm Reich
roles stories film
There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects. Ricky Gervais
roles ambiguity adviser
I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly. Brian Chesky
roles
I choose my roles carefully. Catherine Deneuve
roles
I take away something from every role. Cary Elwes
roles life-is stills
I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.
roles money-in-politics wells
Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now. Caroline Kennedy
roles way complaining
I can't complain about the roles that have come my way. Jason Clarke
roles
I choose roles that are not me. January Jones
roles guru shows
The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for. Alan Watts
time math science
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. Carl Friedrich Gauss
time writing math
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
time time-management enough
There's time enough, but none to spare. Charles W. Chesnutt
time dark mind
In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle. Charles de Lint
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told. Charles Dickens
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar. Charles Caleb Colton
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
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Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.
women soul secret
Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
women secret-love doe
It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. Charlotte Bronte
women moral walks
A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing. Charles Dudley Warner
women imagination sentimental
Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.
women resentment consequence
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.
women flower sun
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
women want ornaments
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.