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“Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you.”
Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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“Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.”
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“I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.”
Source : Wendy Wasserstein (2005). “Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins”, p.15, Oxford University Press
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“When I was in the leverage buy-out business we bought Weetabix and we leveraged it up to make our return. You could say that anyone who was eating Weetabix was paying for our purchase of Weetabix. It was just business. It is the same for Liverpool.”
Source : "Liverpool profit will service new owners' loan" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2007.
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“The trouble with human beings is not really that they love themselves too much; they ought to love themselves more. The trouble is simply that they don’t love others enough. "The End of Anthropocentrism?”
Source : Mary Midgley (2000). “Utopias, Dolphins and Computers: Problems of Philosophical Plumbing”, p.78, Psychology Press
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“She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.”
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“One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.”
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“When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence.”