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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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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 want to provide the kids with an opportunity to play against the state's best. It gives the kids a chance to get better and it gives them a chance to get seen by some of the college coaches.
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We want to prepare our team mentally and physically against the best teams in Ohio. This is an important week. The Stellar gives us the opportunity to play some top teams.
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We want to play well against Vancouver. We want to make sure we try and get a good win and have a good game there. We'll see how it plays out. Joe Sakic
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We have to have all five players on the court and be aware of where she is. She can get shots in a variety of ways, and everybody has to be aware of her presence. The biggest thing we need to do against her is get to her before she has the basketball. If you prevent her from getting the basketball you can get under her skin and limit her production.
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We have to go out and prove we can do it against teams that we should have success against. We need to prove that we're a good team, and we haven't done that yet.
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We have to go on the road against No. 2 (Cal Irvine) but first is tomorrow night. We have to make sure we're playing better each night. That's who will come out on top, who's playing better at the end.
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We have to go back on to that drawing board and come up with something different next weekend against France. Scott Johnson
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We have to get those guys to go out with the same type of confidence they had against Cal.
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We want to see a revised standard that narrows that opening and makes it more difficult for kids to get their fingers caught.
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We wanted to try to turn them into a jump-shooting team as much as possible. And we also wanted them to have to take difficult shots.
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We have played two really good teams who had something on the line. It was very difficult to win in San Angelo and (the Odessa High) game was very much like a playoff game for them.
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The real difficulty is to make sure that such treaty obligations will be observed. Arthur Henderson
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When I'm in the zone, it's difficult for players to hit me. That's what I've been working on -- getting in the zone. Jose Contreras
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It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are. Sharon Salzberg
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Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back. Brian Herbert
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When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad. Bill Ayers
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Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible Arthur Schopenhauer
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When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist. James Nesbitt
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I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this. Lech Walesa
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I think the union has come out of this strengthened, not weakened, Tony Blair
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the union than not in the union. Bill Shorten
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