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“I think the lie we've told people in the marketplace is that a degree gets you a job. A degree doesn't get you a job. What gets you a job is the ability to carry yourself into that room and shake a hand and look someone in the eye and have people skills. These are the things that cause people to become successful.”
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“We are committing ourselves to basic protections of our people... We will not permit banks to repossess the homes of working class and middle class people. That's the end of that, it is not negotiable.”
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“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.”
Source : Jonathan Carroll (2005). “Outside the Dog Museum”, p.89, Macmillan
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“I'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in.”
Source : "The Hulk is back and ready if needed". Interview with Chris Varias, www.wtsp.com. December 31, 2014.
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“My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.”
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“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”
Source : Speech, Pittsburgh, Pa., 27 Oct. 1976
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“Granted: I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peep-hole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.”
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“You gotsta love all God's children!”
Source : Speech honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. in Clemson University, January 17, 2005.