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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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Martin Jacques Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.
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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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Charles Caleb Colton The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
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Alan Watts Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen is simply the sensation and the clear understanding ... that there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy -- and it appears as you, and everything is it. The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to "feel it in your bones.
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Alan Watts Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.
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Alan Greenspan Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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Alan Greenspan Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.
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Alan Beck Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy....A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger, wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.
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Alan Blinder In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters. And there would be an inventory pileup. And then - bam - businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.
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Chris Chocola Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives.
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Chris Colfer I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!
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David Cross I've had plenty of negative reviews. I have my entire life.
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Brent Scowcroft A number of presidents since Nixon have come to office with negative views of the Chinese. They always end up supporting the thrust of the policy established by President Nixon.
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David Moskowitz A negative outcome in this trial is more magnified than a positive one.
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Alan Ackerman The tech news exacerbates an already negative feeling,
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Ana Navarro Some people instinctively have a negative reaction to things of that sort.
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Scott Sprinzen Public sentiment regarding such vehicles has turned more negative than previously.
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Jarome Iginla It was a negative year, no question about it.
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Jeff Joerres This is one of the most negative outlooks in the wholesale and retail sector since the first quarter of 2004. They're going to be very cautious.
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Chad Pennington You need a big play to give you a spark, ... After that, we didn't have any negative plays on first and second downs.
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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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Jason Taylor The play worked, ... Randy was wide open.
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Ben Casnocha Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.
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David Harsanyi When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.
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Joe Torre Randy was great, we just didn't give him anything to work with.
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Norv Turner Randy made some big plays. He competed awfully well.
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Ian Forrester The most important thing for South Africans is that whatever its value, the rand remain stable rather than fluctuating wildly.
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Thomas Massie I agree with Sen. Rand Paul on issues more than I do Mitch McConnell.
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Stephen Jay Gould [C]ontingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.
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Jillian Garza We know that it was not a random act.
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Bill Wright Even a slight reduction in revenue can have a significant impact.
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Herman Frazier We will sit down with her and there will be reduction of that this year.
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David Stern With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season
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John Collins Phil's not going anywhere. He hasn't been fired, and he's not going to be fired. There is no reduction of responsibility. There is no rift.
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Craig Carper Hopefully, we'll see a reduction in those numbers.
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Gertrude Stein Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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John Carioba If you put all that together you end up with a reduction in volume.
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Charles Dickens The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.
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Fred Coan We've got kids, I'm sure, who have never been out of South Carolina.
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Belle Boyd The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.
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Charles Kuralt A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
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David Sibley They talk about Southern hospitality, but Southern hospitality has nothing on this place,
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Jimmy Barros It's tough to come back in on that ledge when the ocean's flat. With today's 3-foot south swell and the easterly wind swell, it was even more dangerous.
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Randy Julander Southern Utah is having a terrible year, unbelievably bad.
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Ryan Holmes South America's most populous country, Brazil, is also emerging as one of the region's most social-media savvy.
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Larry Coker There's always been talent in South Florida, it just didn't stay here.
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Charles Caleb Colton Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.
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Charles Caleb Colton No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.
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Charles Dickens A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.
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Charles Dickens Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.
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Charles Dickens The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.
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Charles Dickens Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one....
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Charles Dickens It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to make him strong.
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Charles Spurgeon It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.
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Charles Spurgeon It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.
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Charles Spurgeon A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best
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Aiden Wilson Tozer When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.
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Aiden Wilson Tozer God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust
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David Brainerd It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.
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Carlos Castaneda The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.
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Agnes Repplier Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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Carlos Slim Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.
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Edward Kennedy Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor.
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Bill Gross Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market,