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It’s time to stop being part of the problem by speaking out about the culture of harmful practices and impunity that has led to needless murders. We are not merely showing discontent but addressing the need to change the reinforcement of this impunity & negligence.

Speaking Harmful Practices Murders
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

About Along Biggest Biggest Influence
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The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.

About Done Favorite Favorite Thing
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

About Could Incredibly Insensitive
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

About Anything Aspects Avoid
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

About Baseball Baseball Players Bring
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

About Acquainted After Aware
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Stay focused on the present and don’t worry about past or future. Do not let negative things from the past effect your present-day happiness. Whatever occurred in the past cannot be altered and you should let it go and move on.

Stay focused Worry Future Negative things
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What I've learned about life; Live on your own terms.

Learned Life Own Terms
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Do not compare yourself to other people whom you know very little about.

Compare Other people Little about
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If you fulfill your obligations everyday, you don’t have to worry about the future.

Fulfill Your obligations Worry about Future
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I’ve only been around on earth for about 21 years, but one thing I’ve learned with all certainty, is that ALL challenges are temporary I’m building the psychological foundations of the rest of my life on this axiom

Earth Learned Challenges Temporary
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Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.

About AllDay Day Depression
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I didn't have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn't grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.

About America Black Did
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I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

About Because Become Been
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

No man Intelligence Good faith Questioned
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When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

About Begin Connect Different
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My favorite film is 'All About Eve'.

About Eve Favorite Film
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How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

About Besides Conservative Constitution
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I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

About Anything Anytime Away
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The good thing about auditioning is that you get to test yourself and see if you can play this character - you're also auditioning yourself.

About Also Auditioning Character
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Stories about race and identity pique my interest for obvious reasons. That's in my body, my brain, my history, my memories - it's all part of my toolbox as an actor.

About Actor Body Brain
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I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.

About Conversations Crucial Debates
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We need to have a conversation about the fact that black faces are not as visible as they should be, that there is huge inequality everywhere in terms of race.

About Black Conversation Everywhere
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People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

About Always Assumptions Because
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When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.

About Garden Ground I Think
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What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

About Conservative Declaration Full
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The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Superiority Man's opinion Never
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Mind anything Anyone else Judge
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

Nice thing Celebrity Bore people Fault
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Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.

About Because Diversion Incredible
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I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.

About Age Any Anyone
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I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

About Army Done Her
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Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

About Doing Dream Engineers
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My work as a naval officer in World War II enabled me to serve on 49 different South Pacific islands so that I came to know the area about as well as anyone.

About Anyone Area Came
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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

About Bring Efforts Inevitably
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I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.

About Bonds Did Dollars
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I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.

About Difference Expresses Fact
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I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.

About Being Best Brown
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I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back.

About About An Hour Again Aside
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I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.
About Dollars Few Having
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I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

About Been Held Know
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The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

About Being Brown Down
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The Academy is paranoid about its image.

About Academy Image Paranoid
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Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

About Been Daddy Election
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Sometimes it's all about the casting.

About Casting Sometimes
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Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

About Casually Experience Folks
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I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.
About Good Movies People
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I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

About Contemplate Enjoy Facts
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I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.

About Away Dubious Far
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