Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward James Olmos

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cassandra Wilson

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

Chanel Iman

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

Charles Rangel

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

Thomas Hobbes

The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental.

Michael Vinciquerra

We believe that shares reflect significant optimism about the future of the combined NYSE/Archipelago model, and . . . challenges will only become apparent as the hybrid system and Regulation NMS are implemented during 2006.

Gary Bartlett

There are certain apparent violations, basically, of people giving in the name of another in the video industry. We have been investigating this for a year.

Van Allen

We have never had this much depth on the women's sprint side. We have very healthy inter-team competition and the results have been apparent at the meets.

Nicholas Mosley

Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.

Paul Johnston

We've apparently struck a reasonable middle ground and will continue to try to meet the needs of all the authorized purposes.

Kent Beck

The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.

Saul Klein

When we found out you could register extended names, it became apparent to us that there were a lot of missed opportunities,

Fred Thompson

We've got assistants to assistants to assistants to deputies to assistants to deputies to assistants, ... Who in the world is accountable for what? Mr. Richardson apparently thinks all you have to do is appoint a new czar.

Masahiro Kawai

The possibility of a US dollar collapse or sharp decline may be small at this point but it would generate very significant turmoil so East Asian economies... ought to be ready for that.

Travis Rutherford

We are proud to be joining forces with the emerging leader of Asian popular culture, Korea, whose companies and stars are increasingly defining what people listen to, watch and play throughout the world.

David Fyfe

There are concerns that the longer $60 oil persists, the greater the pressure will come (on Asian governments) to cut subsidies.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

We have scaled the heights of Mount Everest, dominated the Southeast Asian games, we have won international beauty titles, and of course punched our way to triumph in the boxing world. Our people compete and win every day in every imaginable job throughout the world.

Bo Burnham

Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.

Gaston Caperton

World language courses are developing students in a capacity in European and Asian languages and this gives them a deeper understanding of not only language, but culture. It brings prosperity and peace to this world.

Nobuo Uematsu

And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.

Gary DiCamillo

As we anticipated, the strong U.S. dollar and the Asian economic crisis had a negative impact. What we did not expect was the level of reduction in inventories at dealers in the United States and Europe.

Ian Stannard

As well as hints from Asian authorities that they are going to diversify, we now have the U.S. acknowledging it. It's going to put the dollar under a bit of pressure.

Rick Sandlin

We always have trouble finishing, and I think some of that is because ... when you get beyond seven- or eight- (deep) for us, our quality, talent ... drops off. You get tired.

Herb Vincent

The people who met today aren't the people who work out the nitty-gritty details to make things happen. LSU will obviously be reimbursed for expenses and would not suffer financial losses from this arrangement. Beyond that, not a lot of details have been settled. They will emerge in the days to come.

Mark Kiesel

We still think inflation will be contained. The reality is the economy is going to slow sharply over the next three to six months, and that should keep the Fed from hiking beyond May.

Matt Lawton

We started out by looking at profitability, but we found by talking with partners, they viewed their business performance in a number of dimensions that goes beyond simple net profits.

Nico Melendez

Why someone would leave $4,000 in their checked luggage is beyond me. Why don't they just take the $4,000 and leave it on the seat at Aloha Stadium during a football game and let somebody pick it up? Because that's essentially what they did.

Tom Rath

When you tell people at a convention that you're from New Hampshire, they tend to hold on to your hand a little longer and look into your eyes a little deeper, ... But beyond that, there was no overt, 'Are you with me if I go?'

Michael Dell

We're not going to provide any visibility beyond what we provided for the first quarter.

Patrick Hamon

We have seen a continued drop beyond Paris, but persistence near the capital. We cannot yet claim victory.

Dave Wiggins

We want our clients to feel pampered beyond expectations.

Alan Mollohan

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

Alan Autry

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

Carmen Garcia

We want to support our community even though we are not illegal, but we come from an immigrant community.

Jim Knight

We want to show our kids that we love them, we care, and we want to get involved in their lives. One thing we want everyone to remember is this is not a JFK or high school problem. This is a community problem.

Barney Frank

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

Audre Lorde

stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.

Antonio Villaraigosa

We in Los Angeles, who have ourselves been helped to stand up - to recover and rebuild after a disaster - want to help the families and communities of the Gulf Coast,.

Linda Lewis

We also want to find out what the community wants here.

Dee Hock

Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.

Allen Iverson

We're going to need team efforts and we need each other down the stretch.

Rudi Giuliani

We're going to focus our efforts on recovering as many people as we can and on removing debris, which will take at least two or three weeks,

Mike Browning

We're still in Florida doing long-term recovery efforts

Edward Jackson

We're getting offers of help; we're getting word that people are trying to structure efforts for us.

Adam Sanders

All of our efforts focus on the Southeast area.

Lesa Mitchell

American universities and industry have a long history of collaborative efforts that have spawned significant innovations and fueled our entrepreneurial economy. It is imperative to take the lessons from these collaborative relationships so that we may improve the process by which discoveries and innovations move into the marketplace.

John Hill

A lot of these little Web sites that are springing up out of nowhere as a result of this incident are hindering the efforts rather than helping. A lot of that information isn't getting where it needs to go and people have too many choices, too many places to go.

Ehud Barak

for constructive efforts towards a comprehensive and just peace.

Lisa Schirch

It's the little efforts that can make a big difference.

Raul Rodriguez

Why tackle the Hispanic people only? That is not fair. That is not right. That is not justice.

Frank Cruz

He was a true pioneer of Hispanic media here in Los Angeles. And he was a gutsy cameraman.

Bob Yevak

White, black, Hispanic we should all be in one league playing as a team together.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

Howard Davidowitz

Is Wal-Mart going after the Hispanic and African-American consumers? Absolutely. They're a significant percentage of Wal-Mart shoppers,

Jerry Reinsdorf

Ozzie is the Hispanic Jackie Mason. If you look at him in that light, you don't worry about anything he says.

John Griffith

It's more than likely the same people, ... It looks like they're targeting the Hispanic population.

Chris Larsen

The Hispanic vote is going to be very key in the election.

Roberto Suro

You've got a very large share of the population living not in stereotypical neighborhoods where all the signs are in Spanish. There are still a lot living in densely Hispanic neighborhoods, but there are more who are scattered all over the landscape.

John Hopkins

assembling and organizing what we already have in-house.

Yareli Arizmendi

There's been a lot of talk about the film it has served as an organizing tool, a kind of reference.

Ben Edwards

It's dramatically cheaper. Plus you don't have thousands of people organizing their schedules around this weekly call.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Rush Limbaugh

Do you think if there was any real evidence, we would have reached a settlement?

Larry Harris

I feel we reached out and stole a Clipper.

Drew Kesse

He immediately reached out to us. We're very grateful.

Mary Jordan

They wanted to see them. And when you say no, we can't let you in, we've reached capacity, that's heartbreaking and that's what it was.

Jessica Wolf

He wanted to find his goals. We supported his choice.

Sam Richards

There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

CeeLo Green

I am a rare occasion. I think if everyone had known it was going be me who succeeded, they would have supported me a lot more. They would have known what to do with me a lot earlier. They just didn't know.