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Eddie Murphy Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didnt want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but thats part of it.
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Hafeez Khawaja WD's steady growth in the MENA region encouraged us to further expand our operations in this region. We will enter new, untapped regional markets, and at the same time strengthen operations in existing ones. At the centre of WD's expansion strategy are the rapidly evolving and promising African markets, such as Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Nigeria and Kenya. The former three have high IT literacy levels.
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Rande Gerber There are some great opportunities, including selling the land. If that happens, George and I will invest in something else in Las Vegas ... and George will donate his profits to the African Debt Relief Project.
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Nnedi Okorafor 'Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them.
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Hiram Rhodes Revels The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia.
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Cassandra Wilson Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.
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Chanel Iman Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.
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Alan Paton It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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Alan Moore Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?
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Aiden Wilson Tozer When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!
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John Tortorella We've won one game, that is it. I think what we did is just turn this into a series. ... As the series goes on, you have to play better. We know Ottawa is going to play better the third game.
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Edward Hopper When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!
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John M. Ford The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.
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Jack Horner where it actually goes from land into the water.
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Nigel Barker My go-to necktie is jet black, skinny, and simple. It goes with everything. I really like that mod-ish punk look.
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Mel Rapozo When you talk to the officers, it's pretty bad. Every day that goes by without some intervention, it's getting worse.
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Charles Caleb Colton It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
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Charles Dickens Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
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Charles Dickens I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
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Charles Dickens Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
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Charles Studd Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.
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Charles Stross In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.
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Charles Stanley I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.
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Charles Spurgeon The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.
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Charles Spurgeon People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.
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Charles Spurgeon God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.
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Chloe Grace Moretz An actor always goes to the safe side.
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Jack Thompson The other side wants to make me the issue,
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Madeleine Albright There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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Mark Twain Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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Charlie Ergen The world is changing.... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side let's take the side of the consumer,
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Charles Dudley Warner It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
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Bill Laswell Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.
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Al Lewis The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
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Al Lewis America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.
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Chris Colfer I think every time a movie gets made, it's a miracle. I would love to get to a point where it became easier and it wasn't so much of a struggle to get it done or finished.
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Earl Warren Our Bill of Rights, the most precious part of our legal heritage, is under subtle and pervasive attacks... In the struggle between our world and Communism, the temptation to imitate totalitarian security methods must be resisted day by day... When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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Daymond John While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.
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Benedict Cumberbatch I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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Beau Willimon We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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Audre Lorde I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable.
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Alan Moore As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.
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Dean Acheson The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
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David Hume Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.
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Audrey Tautou I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.
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Dee Hock The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.
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Carolyn Porco Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.
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Carlos Castaneda You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small
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Charlotte Lamb I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!
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Charles Lamb This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.
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Alan Chadwick Patience is not a virtue!
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David Brooks There is a virtue in shamelessness.
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Baroness Orczy Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
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William Shakespeare If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.
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William Shakespeare Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
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Bertolt Brecht Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.
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Bernard Meltzer One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.
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Eliza Haywood Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ...
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