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“Gays and lesbians, when you fight against discrimination and a cure for AIDS, you are right - but your patch is not big enough. Conservatives and progressives, when you fight for what you believe, ...”
“We, the people, can win!We stand at the end of along dark night of reaction. We stand tonight united in the commitment to a new direction. For almost eight years we've been led by those who view so...”
“Reaganomics. Based on the belief that the rich had too little money and the poor had too much. That's classic Reaganomics. They believe that the poor had too much money and the rich had too little ...”
“Wherever you are tonight, you can make it. Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but the morning comes. Don't you surrender. Suffering breeds character...”
“Given the unexpected, hard-won success of Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign, the Third American Revolution may well be on its way. Certainly, the phenomenon of a Black man bidding for the ...”
“But media apart, hundreds and then thousands and thousands of white and black Americans found themselves standing in front of this indisputably charismatic orator. From his own mouth they understoo...”
“Twenty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Reverend Jesse Jackson was standing up, by popular vote, the front-runner Democratic candidate for the presidency of the Uni...”
“I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.”
“For so long, I didn't play the object of attention or affection. It wasn't until L.A. Story that anyone cast me in a role that had my sexuality as a point of interest or focus or operation. I just ...”
“I didn't think I was going to be a person who other people knew, whose name was recognizable.”
“Anything having to do with food is pleasurable for me. Any conversation about food, review of food, story of food, picture of food, thought of food...”
“Just because people don't have money doesn't mean they don't desire the same thing. They should have it, and it should be good.”
“I strangely feel better before I go through hair and makeup. Maybe that's just because I feel like me.”
“It never grows old, putting on a beautiful dress. For me, it's a great distraction. It's always ridiculous, and it always feels like it should be happening to somebody else.”
“My instinct was that it felt personal. It was really about 'We don't like her.' Who were the judges and critics? I would like to ask them, 'What exactly is it that you personally find not sexy abou...”
“That's the beauty of this country — we can have different opinions and coexist and be amused by each other and hurt and offended.”
“Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it… it says Chicken... by the Sea.”
“A little bit is not that much to ask to ay things right.”
“The real me is a southern girl with her Levis on and an open heart. Wish I could save the world, like I was super girl.”
“The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads — in the end — to the best within us.”
