"The reason I entered the election race was to promote reforms. For us who engage in business, we will be severely affected if financial and structural reforms don't proceed."

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Source : "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 2005.

Takafumi Horie

#Change Quotes #Race Quotes #Reform Quotes

“Now why, if freedom is striven after for love of the I after all - why not choose the I himself as beginning, middle, and end?”
“The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.”
“With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good at improvisational stuff.”
“Is it the responsibility of the colored artist or the ethnic artist to create works that are designed to exist in opposition to a certain political structure?”
“Race doesn't mean what it used to in America anymore. It just doesn't. Obama's black, but he's not black the way people used to define that. Is black your experience or the color of your skin? My experience is as a Mexican immigrant, more so than someone like George Lopez. He's from California. But he'll be treated as an immigrant. I am an outsider. MyÂ abuelita,Â my grandmother, didn't speak English. My whole family on my dad's side is in Mexico. I won't ever be called that or treated that way, but it was my experience.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Don't allow the enemies in your life to cause you to focus more on your appetite or circumstances than on the promises of God that are released when you employ the powerful weapon of fasting.”

Source : Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.53, Charisma Media
“Men have been led in dark paths, through the providence and dispensation of God. Why, surely it is not to be objected to a man, for who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.”
“I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it.”

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