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“My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.”
Source : "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002. 
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“We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.”
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“Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.”
Source : Source: screenanarchy.com
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“The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.”
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“I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.”
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“Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.”
Source : Jackie Kay (2016). “Trumpet: Picador Classic”, p.66, Pan Macmillan
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“I love like the 80s look - 80s and early 90s, like the high-waisted jeans and the crop tops, and the floral prints, and flowers and stuff like that. Big baggy jumpers... yeah, stuff like that.”
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“..I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.”
