"Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s, I had something that the current generation doesnt have. And that is a sense of efficacy."

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Paul Solman

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“I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in a film.”
“Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.”
“I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.”

Source : "Singer Faith Evans Talks Christmas Hip-Hop". Interview with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. December 21, 2005.
“I always tell Cristiano before training, 'If you do stepovers on me, I will break your legs and rip up your shirt.' I have no wish to have the mickey taken out of me all week.”
“No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre”
“Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.”
“Listing rights generally involves enumerating things you may do without interference (the right to free speech) or may not be done to you without your permission (illegal search and seizure, loud boy-band music in public places). They are protections, not gifts of material goods. Material goods and services must be taken from others, or provided by their labor, so if you believe you have an absolute right to them, and others don't choose to provide it to you, you then have a 'right' to steal from them. But what about their far more fundamental right not to be robbed?”

Source : "Health Care Mythology" by Cliff Asness, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 22, 2009.
“Everyone in your life is a 'practise person.' How you react to them allows you to see what you have to work on within yourself.”

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