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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
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We have nice kids; they really get along with each other.
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We have some building to do. If you're not controlling the line of scrimmage, it's going to be tough. You have to at least break even along the line and obviously we're not doing that. Steve Spurrier
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We have so many other things to do, rather than to be deployed along the border for another generation or two, ... It's time to make a decision. I feel the opportunity is clear also to President Assad. Ehud Barak
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When you see a guy hit his head that hard, you're worried about one thing: a concussion. But he had nothing along that line. Lindy Ruff
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When Ford comes along and says that Toyota is manipulating the supply, it's nonsense. Toyota developed it all. Toyota does a lot of it in-house. Someone is pointing a finger at Bill Ford saying, Why don't you make more hybrids? So he has to point the finger at someone else.
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When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.
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We wanted to win this game, and we knew what would come along with it,
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We've still got some work to do. But I think as far as coming along, we're coming along pretty well. We're starting to get back to playing Nevada basketball.
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We have a young make up with three sophomores and six freshmen on this team. But we also have a great deal of experience to go along with the youth.
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We have recognized that small businesses are people businesses. The types of people we have to have employed here have to want to be a trusted advisor. They have to have a strong value culture around doing the right thing.
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The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions. Dambisa Moyo
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There is a long history there, when new businesses look to relocate to Zanesville, (they) go through the chamber first, ... It just makes a lot of sense to have someone in the chamber be a part of the Port Authority.
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We use this less-conservative format to celebrate the successes and to thank businesses for their investment in the economic development of our community.
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Having fewer unhealthy days and, in turn, more days when you have the energy to get things done is probably the global constant through which businesses and individuals can think about the quantifiable upside of increasing wellbeing. Tom Rath
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This was a solid third quarter for Federated, propelled by strong sales and earnings in our department store segment and a level of performance in our direct-to-customer catalog and e-commerce businesses that was in line with what we had anticipated, ... We are entering the fourth quarter with our inventories in good shape, and we remain optimistic that it will be a good retail Christmas season.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world. Karen Mills
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We have to keep the momentum going in the economy. And we have to make sure that we give small businesses as much cash and liquidity as possible so they have the confidence to hire that next worker.
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We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.
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We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.
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The process is oftentimes too mysterious, and the public has a right to know. We're hoping that there will be a greater understanding of the process.
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The outcome of your Greater Serbian hegemonic policy is the unseen suffering of the people of this unfortunate country, Slobodan Milosevic
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Poul Anderson's 'The High Crusade' may have had a greater impact on my development as a writer than any other book I ever read. Eric Flint
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know? Karen Allen
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the potential to inflame is greater than the value of the piece itself.
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We are seeing a market that has experienced extraordinary rates of growth. We are seeing those rates moderate. That pace of moderation has been slightly greater than we expected.
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Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.
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With this size pond, we get a greater dilution factor, so we will be able to meet those standards.
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Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women. Carol Roth
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All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff. Carol Leifer
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It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door. Carol Moseley Braun
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I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV. Carol Vorderman
men men-and-women
The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself. Carlos Fuentes
men self enemy
Self importance is man's greatest enemy. Carlos Castaneda
men metaphysical ifs
Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.
men world life-is
We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.
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The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.
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My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.
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The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale. Carl Friedrich Gauss
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. Charles Caleb Colton
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The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands. Charles Simmons
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There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business. Brent Spiner
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We know we don't get a lot of attention. We just feel we're a numbers team. We let our numbers speak for us.
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I`ve passed on a number of bills. I`ve studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated. Dianne Feinstein
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It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured.
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There are leaders vocally, and there are leaders by example. I think I'm starting to become better at being a leader vocally, just talking on the court. Trey Burke
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It must be really hard to be starting out in music now. Bryan Ferry
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I like starting. It's pretty cool. Al Leiter
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We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten. Kurt Vonnegut
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If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now. Brian Tracy
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We're starting to see what we need to do to win. Lawrence Frank
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We're starting to get some of the registrations in.
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We're starting to get on a roll. Things are going well for us. Kim Smith
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We're starting to get back to work today.
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Do I think the West End relies too heavily on star names? Yes, I do, and it can result in miscasting and sub-standard stuff. Not always, but occasionally. Tobias Menzies
west feels continents
I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off. Djimon Hounsou
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Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension. Eckhart Tolle
western
Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not. Edward Norton
western
Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die. Bruce Campbell
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I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family. Jana Kramer
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The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. Charles Marion Russell
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We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state. Ariel Sharon
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Because I was born in the South, I’m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being. Clyde Edgerton
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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.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it. Agnes Repplier
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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
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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.
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Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.
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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.
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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.