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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

James A. Baldwin

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.

Fergie

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Christopher Hitchens

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Bob Dylan

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

Rebecca Romijn

Although time seems to fly, it never travels faster than one day at a time. Each day is a new opportunity to live your life to the fullest. In each waking day, you will find scores of blessings and opportunities for positive change. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the unchangeable past or the indefinite future! Today is a new day!

Steve Maraboli

I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.

Satyajit Ray

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.

Gail Hamilton

Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you miss him.

Anon., Irish Proberb

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Mark Twain