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I think that there is a changing wind. There are black conservatives out there, and their voices need to be heard. ↗

— Allen West

#changing #conservatives #heard #i #i think

Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#doing #films #gratifying #little #lives

I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#advocacy #being #bigger #certainly #difference

Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#comic #curtains #different #different way #disturb

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#contribution #distinctive #enabling #generations #healing

I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior. ↗

— William Friedkin

#alternatives #attracted #becomes #behavior #characters

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. ↗

— Robert Frost

#behind #fill #gives #jump #just

They emphasize the viewpoint that the protracted economic stagnation in Japan derives from incomplete economic adjustments to significant changes in relative prices. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#derives #economic #economic stagnation #emphasize #incomplete