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I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop. Louis Gossett, Jr.
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We started slowly, but then began to put things together. We were 3-9 to begin the year, but we have gone 9-4 the rest of the way. Brian Keith
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We stopped the rescue operation around 11 o'clock (Thursday) night, ... As the tide came in, the structure began to move, and other parts began to collapse again. We made the decision to pull our divers out. John Timoney
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We started from scratch. Immediately people began dropping things off - and they were nice things. Our goods are gently used. We are not a junkyard or garbage drop. Helen Scannell
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When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit. Leslie Cockburn
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Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England. M.I.A.
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Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown. Natasha Trethewey
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I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would. Natasha Tsakos
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel. Ma Jian
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We're going to Dunedin to win the Tri-nations, not to defend it. We do not want to wait another week to see what will happen in the match between the All Blacks and the Wallabies. It is probably the worst thing in the world to wait and see if you are going to win the trophy. We must make sure we retain the title ourselves. John Smit
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That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.' J. C. Watts
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent. Ed Smith
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Many people, blacks as well as whites, have some trouble having the story of slavery told in a major public venue, ... But we do not have the right not to tell the story. James Oliver
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We must recognize that all the civil rights laws in the world are not going to solve the problem of minority underachievement. Ultimately, blacks and Hispanics are going to have to see that their solution is largely in their own hands. Richard Lamm
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There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States. Vicente Fox
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While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge. Douglas Brinkley
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For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles. Warren Farrell
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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of. Vincent Bugliosi
civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest. Charles Caleb Colton
civilization saws ends
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street? Alan Bennett
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Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again. Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it. Aiden Wilson Tozer
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We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody. John Wilson
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Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. David Mitchell
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
equality long-ago tomorrow
A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow. Charles Caleb Colton
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We want the Persian Gulf to be a gulf of friendship and equality, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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The people who had been in rebellion must necessarily come back into the Union, and be incorporated as an integral part of the nation. Naturally the nearer they were placed to equality with the people who had rebelled, the more reconciled they would Ulysses Grant
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There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory. Aime Cesaire
equality-under-the-law justice healthy
Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law. Barney Frank
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I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated. Dian Fossey
equality men america
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. Bertrand Russell
equality want secured
I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. Agnes Macphail
equality rights government
Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond. Charlotte Bunch
france sells
In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it. Alan Parsons
france england world
An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England. William Shakespeare
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One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous. Kate Forsyth
france
I am against the Islamisation of France. Brigitte Bardot
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I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland. Brigitte Bardot
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Even though I studied in New York and I know the American system, I come from France where I learned that with movies in France where the director is king. There's no such thing as a studio edit. It's the director's cut, period. Louis Leterrier
france happened prisoner
Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it. Olivier Martinez
france worldwide
When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world. Olivier Megaton
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I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945) Adolf Hitler
respected
A free press needs to be a respected press. Tom Stoppard
respected trying
We're always trying to break the boundaries of what a 'denim brand' can be, and we want to be respected for it. Renzo Rosso
respected
My dream is to see India as a nation of well-looked-after and respected sportspeople in all fields. Saina Nehwal
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What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact. Sonny Rollins
respected special teams
Our special teams is the most respected part of our team. Walt Harris
respected united
I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations. Henry Cabot Lodge
respected tv writers written
After 'Nikki' and 'Steve Harvey,' I had written on a show called 'The Oblongs,' which was pretty well respected and had a lot of 'Simpsons' writers on it. So I was a TV writer with an interesting voice at that moment. Jill Soloway
states secretary
I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever. Madeleine Albright
states evident secretary
I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me. Madeleine Albright
states barometer interest
...interest is the barometer of the state... David Hume
states hyperbole constant
I live in a constant state of hyperbole. Eden Sher
states senators productive
I was very productive as a senator for my state. Carol Moseley Braun
states united
I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic. Sammy Sosa
states loses
Better lose me than lose a state. Susan B. Anthony
states subjects susceptibility
writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility. Elizabeth Bowen
states united wants
Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon. Barack Obama
united-states significant congress
Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States. Chris Chocola
united-states lines problem
The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution. Denis McDonough
united-states states united
Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States. Charlaine Harris
united-states immigrants nations
The United States is historically a nation of immigrants. Charles Rangel
united-states may constitution
I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may. Abraham Lincoln
united-states folks collapse
You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses. Bruce Springsteen
united-states grew states
I grew up in the United States. Dominique de Villepin
united
I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States. Barack Obama
united united-states
We (send) them all over the United States. Judy Dickson
values
We value some lives more than others. Charlize Theron
values
When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently. Demi Lovato
values
Nobody values your time but YOU. Brian Tracy
values
We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those. Robert Gerhardt
values wikileaks
The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange. Heather Brooke
values
have the same values and the same interests. Craig Stapleton
values
We need to know as much as we can and as much as he will tell us about his values and beliefs, Dick Durbin
values
How do you measure your value? Loretta Lynn
values
I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.' John Hodgman