"The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire."

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Source : "Black Like Him: Obama's Narrow Path to Reelection" by Charles P. Pierse, www.esquire.com. July 23, 2015.

Charlie Pierce

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“Patriotism is the intelligent appreciation that one's own welfare is inseparably connected with the general welfare and that to prosper personally one must intelligently do his utmost to maintain the general prosperity.”
“He stomped away like a pint-sized Godzilla looking for Tokyo.”

Source : Julia Spencer-Fleming (2015). “The Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Series, Books 4-6: To Darkness and to Death; All Mortal Flesh; I Shall Not Want”, p.629, Macmillan
“The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.”
“If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.”
“A richer present I design, A finished form, of work divine, Surpassing all the power of art; A thinking head, a grateful heart.”
“The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.”

Source : Hanif Kureishi (2014). “The Word and the Bomb”, p.5, Faber & Faber
“Everything Will Ferrell says during scenes is so funny and so natural. I was amazed at his genius.”
“I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.”

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