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african conflicts deeply fact handful inevitably invested novel particular played politics role
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
african equally fact
The fact is, African Americans have not benefited equally from the improvements that are making a difference. Durado Brooks
african performers perhaps roles south
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
african based
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
african beacon devoted express issues kids life sure
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
african career dig instrument minutes miracle time
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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The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.
british-author england gentleman large lived name western whose
In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
british-author luxuries poor
We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.
british-author lest shame triumph
But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.
british-author enjoyed imagination mysteries relief
I enjoyed writing mysteries out of my imagination as a relief from all that research, and also because I could write them while traveling. Antonia Fraser
british-author continuous form
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. A. C. Benson
british-author goes less older toward
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom. Dorothy L. Sayers
british-author human mankind
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
british-author
I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.
continent people
We want people from every continent to come and see it so we can show them what we represent. Florentino Perez
continent draw leaving reduced unusually warm weather winter
Unusually warm weather significantly reduced the winter draw on (natural gas) inventories, leaving the continent very well supplied.
continent due economic european good observe skills solve troubles understanding
I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems. Leonid Hurwicz
continents nations
A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation. Edmund Barton
continent great win
We're really going for it... It would be great to win on the continent before going to the World Cup. Kolo Toure
continent country leader nigeria style
Nigeria is a very important country on the continent of Africa, and because of your forthrightness and your style and your commitment, you are a very important leader on this continent, Laura Bush
continent economic economists european percent research spend
Ninety-five percent of the economists on the continent were with Blair. There is an economic justification to spend more on research and development at the European level.
continent east gradually increasing north presence south tap throughout west
Obviously, South Africa is our most important market, but we are also gradually increasing our presence throughout East and West as well as North Africa. It is a continent with a lot of potential which we plan to tap into.
continents love people rather understand
I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them. Tracy Morgan
country believe thinking
I think Americans want to believe in this country again. Carol Moseley Braun
country mean fighting
I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field. ... To me, that means making certain that the fight to preserve our civil liberties is waged, making certain the fight against discrimination is waged, making certain that women have opportunity in this country.
country bolivia
Bolivia is not yet a country of equals. Carlos Mesa
country america people
America is such a great country, we have fat poor people. Carlos Mencia
country white apologizing
I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great
country law people
People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand. Carl Andre
country thinking talking
Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I row East in my coracle. When that sinks, shall I paddle East with my four paws. Then, when I can swim no longer, if I have not yet reached Aslan's Country, there shall I sink with my nose to the sunrise... and Peepiceek will be head of Talking Mice in Narnia C. S. Lewis
country religion one-day
He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.
country interest premier time
We have said for a long time that if the premier made this announcement we would stop. We are not stubborn, we have the interest of the country in mind.
estimated five operate round trips value week
World Airways will operate five international round trips a week under the contract, which has an estimated value of $11 million.
estimated houses liquid net
One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That's pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million. Suze Orman
estimated power water
O ctober 25th, estimated before we'll have power or water or anything,
estimated parts worth
We've estimated that there's probably between $80,000 and $100,000 worth of parts in the car.
estimated giving reserves
Our reserves are the world's largest, giving us, conservatively, an estimated 250-year supply.
estimated per value
our worst-case estimated value of $14 per share.
estimated market million produces surplus today
OPEC today produces 30.4 million bpd and there is a surplus in the market estimated at over two million barrels,
estimated
It is estimated that between 10 and 19 whooping cranes have started the migration.
estimated people
We estimated about 9,000 people attended. It was an enthusiastic crowd.
europe diversity unity
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration. Carol P. Christ
europe france
When France has a cold, all Europe sneezes
europe chinese politics
It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese. Charles de Gaulle
europe atheism world
There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and approbation...."There went out a decree in the days of Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed." Charles Caleb Colton
europe people understanding
Europe’s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation. Jean Monnet
europeans israelis nearly
Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.
europe plant products shipped
The products shipped in Europe are from a plant in Europe.
europe next outlook reasonable remains
The outlook for equities in Europe remains pretty reasonable over the next 12 months.
europe hip-hop house
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that. Brian Eno
larger quality quantity sandwiches secure size tomatoes
We use larger size tomatoes in sandwiches and haven't been able to secure them with the quality and quantity that we would like.
larger life money okay outside slightly
When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute. Anna Kendrick
larger line passengers screening thereby ultimately
Ultimately this is a win-win for TSA in that we are going to be screening a subset of passengers at another location, thereby removing those individuals from a checkpoint line at a larger airport. Ann Davis
larger life watched
You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision. Nicolas Roeg
larger money population pot prices spread time
We have a pot of money that is going to have to be spread over a larger population at a time when prices are soaring, Susan Collins
larger life terrific
I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element. Kenneth Branagh
larger needs small taken unit
We've taken what should be a small unit and made it much larger than it needs to be.
larger loans penalty people popular smaller
No-cost loans are pretty popular right now, especially for people with larger loans. The larger your loan, the smaller the penalty for no-cost loans.
larger return
One of the things they'd like to do is return more to shareholders, and ... a larger buyback makes a lot of sense at this point.
mainly nike
When I'm living in L.A., I'm mainly a jeans, vintage T-shirt and Nike high-tops guy. Jamie Bamber
mainly meant range urban
We have high-end range refrigerators which are mainly meant for the urban areas.
mainly providing shower
We're mainly providing a place to sleep, shower and use restrooms. Robert G. Allen
mainly mixed
Lengths are mainly around the knee, but, in the evening, it is really short. So it's mixed up in that way. Miuccia Prada
mainly shot took
She's a winner. She took that shot mainly because she's a winner. Sylvia Hatchell
mainly molecules
Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem. Martin Chalfie
mainly paid
Mainly because I'd already been paid on it . . . and paid pretty good. Willie Nelson
mainly nice time
I mainly have a nice time in my life. Fiona Shaw
mainly means people receiving rely state welfare
There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
men position-of-power promise
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
men decision stuff
All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff. Carol Leifer
men doors white
It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.
men talking years
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.
men inventory energy
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.
million people product sold telling works
We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works for them.
million people promise represent senate texans truth
And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do. Ted Cruz
millions pair restore surgery
A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see. Thulasiraj Ravilla
million
The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It's very heavenly. Louie Schwartzberg
million mind run
When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter. Ewan McGregor
million pressure resolve
We've got fines accumulating at $1 million a day. The pressure is on to resolve this problem.
million today worth
What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.
million since wages
Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen. Stephen F. Lynch
million time
She is going to make her first million by the time she is 20,
proportion
There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.
proportion
In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.
proportion given form
What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life. Alice James
proportion grows
Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished. Leonardo da Vinci
proportion virtuous
Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous. Mary Wollstonecraft
proportion free-time direct
Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time. Mike Dunlap
proportion reached traffic volume
The volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary.
proportion realised
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. Mahatma Gandhi
proportion music-is whole
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it. Orlando Gibbons
seventies
I loved the seventies. Diane von Furstenberg
seven-years never-quit quitting
Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work. Dave Chappelle
seven-years long wish
Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long. Brad Pitt
seven six
Six of the seven have been contacted, and all are well.
seven-years members ministers
I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister. Eduard Shevardnadze
seven
Seven years ago Buy.com had sizzle. But this doesn't have a lot of sizzle to it.
seven springs
Seven Springs has snow, and they're making snow.
seven shots
Seven shots around here is not much at all,
seven-years play understanding
I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually. John Powell
six weeks
We have six weeks to go, ... With your help, we can make it happen.
six-months botox dallas
Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections. Janice Dickinson
six wake-up hours
I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing. Bryan Clay
six seven threat
Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day. Betty Shabazz
six twelve bliss
There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it. Anthony Trollope
sixty
Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.
six
Six times now, huh. That's not too bad.
six skateboarder wanted
Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six. Bam Margera
six slowly throw
We're going to be with them a lot for at least the first six months, then slowly wean them. We're not just going to throw them into an apartment.
women sophie world
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. Carl Friedrich Gauss
women soul secret
Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it. Agnes Repplier
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.
women intellectual female
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.