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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Endless amount History Tradition
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Takes Great deal History Little literature
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It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

History's ironies Classless society
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History is the memory of States.

History Memory
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus

History Knows Resting places
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Hawaii and Fiji are two of the best island groups in the world to visit as a vacationer. The great hotels, the fascinating local people, the exciting history of the two contrasting island groups, and the unmatched scenery make these two of the most enticing stopovers.

Best Contrasting Exciting Fascinating
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Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

Each book Secret history Means
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History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
Best History Only Proletariat
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The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, nevertheless, we can accelerate or retard that development.

Accelerate Action Although Determining
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The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.

Act Classes Constitution Constitutional
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The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.
History Inseparable New NewYork
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There is no history that can be wished away in human existence. Colonialism was a complex history that cannot be erased by demolishing a statue of an imperialist who built the very halls in which you sit to learn about evils of imperialism.

Learn Built Statue Erased
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It is impossible for us to speak about the history of education in Africa without thinking about colonialism.
About Africa Education History
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Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

Campaign Component Diamonds History
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It's much nicer to be known as Mr. Nice Guy than Mr. Nasty Guy. But you've got to have lines - and when you hit the line, that's the end of the story, nice guy or not.

End Got Guy Hit
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I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

About Been Before Exploration
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People think that what I see diving must drive what I put into films, but that isn't really the case. When I am making a Hollywood production, I am telling a different kind of story. Of course, if I see something interesting that works, we will look at it, but they are different things.

Am Case Course Different
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Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

Almost Any Certainly Choose
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Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

Different Directing Narrative Piece
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I don't use film cameras. I don't do visual effects the same way. We don't use miniature models; it's all CG now, creating worlds in CG. It's a completely different toolset. But the rules of storytelling are the same.

Cameras Creating Different Effects
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Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest.

Against Argument Contrary Course
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The strange story about life is that it has many colors.
Strange story Life Many colors
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It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

Based Doing Figure Film
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I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting - both are popularity contests, and in both you're trying to tell a story through the film as a medium.

Acting Aspects Because Both
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When I sign on for a project, I'm there to give the director all the material he or she might need to tell their story, and that's the number one priority.

Director Give He He Or She
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Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

Sometimes Places Characters Emotions
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The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world. Religion, art, and science follow, one and all, this aim.

Aim Art Between Continuing
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As a journalist, the details always tell the story.
Always Details Journalist Story
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It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

Being Black Filmmaker Folks
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Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

Bill Bill Clinton Biography Clinton
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I read more history books than anything else.
Anything Anything Else Books Else
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You can't write just anything. Your story needs structure.

Anything Just Needs Story
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If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

Ancient Example Find Gigantic
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I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

Assistant Attendant Being Like
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We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.

Changes Idea Keen Life
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History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

History Romance Believe
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There is no glory in shame. There is no honor in defeat. There is no dignity in failure. There is no gain in whining & telling a long & pitiful story to 'friendly ears', 'concerned friends', 'eager supporters' & 'free loaders' who will use it to mock and insult you and yours later.

Glory In shame Honor Defeat
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I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it is over.

Nice People Appreciate Slow burning
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A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.

Society Members United Think
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True healing and recovery only comes from addressing not avoiding history. Today we celebrate the souls lost to the Biafran war.

True healing Addressing Avoiding history
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The more of your history you can forget, the more of your destiny you can access

The more History Forget Destiny
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You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Change History Faces Portraits
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A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

Moment comes History Step out New
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The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

Own history More important Can achieve
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Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody's going to buy their way out of its effects.

Climate change Greatest threat Our existence
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Death is another story. I will never make a joke about death. It is beyond my powers.

Death Never Joke Beyond
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It is difficult to see any government in history that has targeted in this massive way, that bottom of the economy and this government has tried to seek them out for the very first time.

Difficult Any government History Massive way
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Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

Every time History repeats Price
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We should write our history books to prove that we did have a past and that it was just as worth writing and learning about as any others. We must do this for the simple reason that a nation and a people without a past is a people without a soul.

Write History book Nation Past
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