"America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system."

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Source : "Giuliani: New York's 'Finest Hour'". Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com. September 17.

Henry Louis Gates

#Country Quotes #Men Quotes #America Quotes

“Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.”
“A lot of unions are doing the same thing on the left that the NRA is doing on the right.”
“True hospitality is a delicate balance of warmth and form.”

Source : Sheila Ostrander (1968). “Etiquette for today”
“To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.”

Source : 1951 I Am a Composer.
“I hate the word mentor, the professionalization of friendships between generations. I just feel like the fact of friendship is the thing we all adored, like the younger befriends or reaches out to their hero, and for me, whenever you meet some younger person, who has a fire in their gut, a way of being in the world, it excites you.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Learn early, learn often.”
“I feel like I do better when I'm offbalance. Every moment is that much more vibrant.”
“I started modeling at 14. It's simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people's ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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