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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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Ricky Stokes We are looking forward to working hard and having a winning season. This should be an exciting team and brand of basketball. I think we will all have a lot of fun along the way.
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Jamie Johnson There are certain vulnerabilities and insecurities that go along with not being linked to another person in a contractual way, even if it's an unspoken contract. People in New York manage that pretty well. I prefer choice and desire over convention and limitation.
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Mike Pedersen There are some great people in education. The people I have worked with and the students I have met along the way have been amazing. On occasion, I run into kids and you get to see they have gone on with life and done well. It is nice to see that you really made a difference.
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James Rubin There are some extremists, and the U.S. is going to step up its effort to enforce security along the border and enforce security in the U.S. sector. And there may be some problems, but I don't think we should blow this out of proportion.
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John Nolan We started mixing it together in the summer time, and it became a really nice blend. The kids get along and there's not a lot of jealousy, and if there is it's hidden very well, because I don't see it.
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Todd Phillips Where teams score on us is when they score easy baskets. (Wheat is) very talented with the ball in his hands, but we're trying to bring him along in his mind. These kids are all we've got and they're going to keep giving effort and heart. Maybe the learning on the fly will translate into some rapid growth.
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Latrell Sprewell And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.
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Marisa Miller The food and drink that goes along with football is one of the best things: hamburgers, hotdogs, chips and dips. At the stadium I would probably get nachos, but when I'm at home we order pizza a lot.
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McKayla Maroney I just know that all my fans who are with me and going along for the ride, that's what means the most to me.
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A. Hodge There are some businesses that have weeds and grass growing in front of the lots, cars with flat tires and cars parked on the sidewalks. We want to encourage the owners of the property to take care of that and clean up in front of their places.
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M. Hardman We started back then and then worked on getting the support of the city council. The most important fact was that the businesses in downtown supported us. Out of the 24 businesses in downtown, 22 supported us.
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Nick Woodman I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, 'OK, that's what you do.' I can thank my dad for that.
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Tom Eid There is no one-size-fits-all approach, because all businesses are not set up to run the same way.
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Nancy Kaylor We're starting to see more employers introduce flexibility into their workplace. The workplace is starting to look a little different. Businesses are finding they need to do it to retain the workers they have.
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Brent Hayes We've got hopefully a couple of new businesses that will be in the mall by early spring.
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Ken Stein We'll be counting on the continued generosity of businesses and individuals to hit our fundraising goals, but we can sure promise them a priceless entertainment experience and opportunity to help the community in this time of need.
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Michael Alter We'll see small businesses growing around all of this.
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Robert Reich We're going to have to have a massive program to get these people permanent housing, ideally near or in their former communities, to get them jobs, to help restart businesses and to provide transportation,
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Bob Zelnick the potential to inflame is greater than the value of the piece itself.
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Richard Segal We are seeing a market that has experienced extraordinary rates of growth. We are seeing those rates moderate. That pace of moderation has been slightly greater than we expected.
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Lucio Tan Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.
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Doug MacGregor We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.
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Noreena Hertz I'm really looking at questions of power, navigation, and spin. Then I am also looking for real-world stories that give me greater insight into smart and new ways of thinking.
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Tom King With this size pond, we get a greater dilution factor, so we will be able to meet those standards.
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William Wordsworth We feel that we are greater than we know.
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Joseph Fiennes Yes, in a way. Film is a by-product of my love of theatre. Theatre is for me the greater challenge. In many ways it requires more skill.
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Vicki Kramer The more standing water you have, the greater the probability for mosquito populations to develop.
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Charles Dickens Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
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Charles Dickens Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.
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Charles Dickens The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
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Charles Dickens It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
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Charles Dickens When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
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Charles Dickens Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
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Charles Caleb Colton When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
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Charles Caleb Colton No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.
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Charles Caleb Colton There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
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Charles Caleb Colton The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.
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Charles Simmons The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.
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Alan Greenspan The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.
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Alan Greenspan Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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Alan Greenspan The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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Alain Prost I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.
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Aiden Wilson Tozer In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.
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David Walliams There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.
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David Hilbert One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it
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Becky Hammon We're starting to come together a little more. We're starting to put it together.
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Bryan Ferry It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.
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Lawrence Frank We're starting to see what we need to do to win.
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Terrie Archer We're starting to get some of the registrations in.
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Kim Smith We're starting to get on a roll. Things are going well for us.
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Gary LaGrange We're starting to get back to work today.
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Billy Dee Williams Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.
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Yusuke Nakai At first, all I thought about was winning a starting position.
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Wilson Edwards They're starting to get the feel of winning.
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Charles Marion Russell The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.
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Ai Weiwei The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.
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Markie Workman They're a lot better than what we play on the Western Slope.
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Djimon Hounsou I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.
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Jana Kramer I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.
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Charles Comiskey I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.
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Ariel Sharon We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.
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Clyde Edgerton Because I was born in the South, I’m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being.
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Tobias Menzies Do I think the West End relies too heavily on star names? Yes, I do, and it can result in miscasting and sub-standard stuff. Not always, but occasionally.
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Charles Caleb Colton Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
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Alan Ayckbourn If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.
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Chris Abani Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.
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Edith Stein Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.
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Edith Sitwell Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.
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Edith Sitwell I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
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Edith Sitwell I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.
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Edith Wharton Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.