![The inspiration for this movie [Something New] was this Newsweek article that came out a couple of years ago that talks about 42.4 percent of black women in America aren't married. Black women are shooting up the corporate ladder way faster than our black male counterparts. And (black men) are either dating outside their race, in jail or dying. And so if you want to have a family, you want to be married, you have to look at other options.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-inspiration-for-this-movie-something-new-was-this-newsweek-article-that-cam.jpg)
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Just the right place at the right time. Some nights are like that. I was able to get in a couple passing lanes and get some picks, but for the most part, it was just being in the right place at the right time. Dwyane Wade
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I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane. Mary Roach
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He can win a game by himself. They got a couple of lucky bounces, but he made the difference. Lindy Ruff
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Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Dr. Seuss
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Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you. Zig Ziglar
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If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large. William Wilberforce
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I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence. Carl Jung
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I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. Robert Cormier
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The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for. Richard Paul Evans
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I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! Richard P. Feynman
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The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life. Plato
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Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.
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Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.
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