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“My life is the direct product, if you will, of the legacy of the blood, sweat and tears of the NAACP and so today I'm particularly mindful that the NAACP has made America what it is, and certainly made my life possible and we are all grateful heirs of that legacy.”
Source : "NAACP Selects Lawyer Cornell William Brooks as New President". www.nbcnews.com. May 17, 2014.
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“I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.”
Source : Stephen Young (2003). “Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good”, p.87, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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“It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts.”
Source : Nic Sheff (2009). “Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines”, p.209, Simon and Schuster
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“A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.”
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“Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.”
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“I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century.”
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“Forget what it was. Look at what it is.”