"Planted by your care? No! Your oppression planted them in America... nourished by your indulgence? They grew by your neglect of them... As soon as you began to care about them, that care was exercised in sending persons to rule over them... men whose behaviour on many occasions has caused the blood of those sons of liberty to recoil within them."

-- Isaac Barre

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“A man is entitled to say whatever he wants to say. It's America, freedom of speech.”
“When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it all in. I didn't know you were supposed to just stand up and tell jokes. Essentially, that's what my act became: those five elements - except I dropped the poetry.”
“I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.”

Source : "OPEN SEASON: An Interview with Martin Lawrence". Interview with Fred Topel, www.blackfilm.com. September 25, 2006.
“For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?”
“I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.”
“I have found that many other countries will buy off on anything American. As much as they hate us, they want to be us more than anything.”
“It has been proven time and time again in countless studies that students who actively participate in arts education are twice as likely to read for pleasure, have strengthened problem-solving and critical thinking skills, are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, four times more likely to participate in a math and science fair....”

Source : "Arts Education in America" by Quincy Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2009.
“I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.”

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