"Portland is often trumpeted as being one of America's coolest, hippest cities. I've been to Portland many times, and I'm always like, "Yeah it's cool and hip, but also, where are all the black people? Why is this city so cool and hip, and also keeping the black people away?""

-- W. Kamau Bell

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“I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.”
“Tolerance is a form of generosity and it is a form of wisdom. There is nothing anywhere in the Dharma [Buddhist scriptures] that should ever lead anyone to become intolerant. Our goal as Buddhists is to learn to accept all kinds of people and to help all kinds of people discover the wisdom of the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha”
“When you're a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory.”

Source : "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.
“The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.”
“I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth-diamond truth; and God is my 'right hand man'.”
“Nowadays, it's good to eat the booty like groceries, but back then, going down on a woman was sort of "Ew."”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.”

Source : "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview with Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.
“She had said one time, make a choice and do it like Hercules. So if that is all of what is being offered, the idea is to always do it like Hercules and I always followed her advise and now I'm here talking to you.”

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