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• Even when I went to America I didn't work for four years. It wasn't like I came to New York and it was the land of milk and honey. It was just as much of a hard graft. But there's a lot more opportunity nowadays across the board for actors, no matter what color you are, with the Internet and small productions.

  Idris Elba

  New York, Opportunity, Milk And Honey

  "Idris Elba, No Stringers Attached". Interview By Amy Chozick, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2014.

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• The idea that you live your life in phases - I've never bought that. I feel like I'm the same person who sat in at the draft board in 1965, I'm the same person who joined a fraternity, I'm the same person who got an MFA at Bennington, and I'm the same person who founded Weather Underground. My values are still intact.

  Bill Ayers

  Weather, Ideas, Live Your Life

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• It is rarely remembered now that socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. It began quite openly as a reaction against the liberalism of the French Revolution. The French writers who laid its foundation had no doubt that their ideas could be put into practice only by a strong dictatorial government. The first of modern planners, Saint-Simon, predicted that those who did not obey his proposed planning boards would be 'treated as cattle'.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Strong, Government, Practice

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• My wife's brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The 30-minute crossing from the mainland to this island is the most terrifying cruise you'll ever take. They give you a barf bag when you walk on board.

  Nick Frost

  Brother, Islands, Sea

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• It was reported today that the machine on board the International Space Station that turns urine into drinking water has been fixed. After hearing this, an astronaut said, 'Wait. You mean that wasn't lemon Tang?'

  Conan O'Brien

  Drinking, Mean, Space

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• I don't need Hollywood. With or without them, I'll be fine. But I'll admit it would be nice to have them on board.

  Russell Peters

  Nice, Hollywood, Would Be

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• It's basically a home-rule issue. I think the governing authority that appoints people as assessors certainly has reasons for doing it. ... And it certainly ought to be the board of assessors' right to say who is best qualified to serve as an appraiser.

  John Scott

  Home, Thinking, Issues

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• I taught public school for 26 years, but I just can't do it anymore. For years I asked the school board to let me teach a curriculum that doesn't hurt kids, but they always had other fish to fry. If you hear of a job where I don't have to hurt kids to make a living, let me know. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything, but blind obedience.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Hurt, Jobs, School

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• As the church watches from the sidelines, the ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to enact policies and laws that destroy our Christian children and discriminate against Christian families.

  Robert Simonds

  Christian, Atheist, Children

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• We need strong school board members who know right from wrong. The Bible, being the only true source of right and wrong, should be the guide of board members. Only godly Christians can truly qualify for this critically important position.

  Robert Simonds

  Christian, Strong, School

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• The Democrats - Democrats on board, the Congress said tax policy.But their tax policy was pretty bad, that added $800 billion to the deficit.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Congress, Said, Democrat

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There are tons of businesses that exist in the United States. An insane number of people who are in business for themselves. And then there are people on board feeling they're at key early stages of companies.

  Alex Blumberg

  Keys, Numbers, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• At his Philadelphia alma mater, Temple University, Cosby gave commencement addresses and attended games. He served on the university`s board of trustees for more than three decades.

  Chaka Fattah

  Games, Philadelphia, Three

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Bill Cosby no longer on Temple University`s board. His name has been removed from various college scholarships and buildings. Two dozen colleges and universities have rescinded honorary degrees they gave him.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  College, Names, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Chess programs don't play chess the way humans play chess. We don't really know how humans play chess, but one of the things we do is spot some opportunity on the chess board toward a move to capture the opponent's queen.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Queens, Moving, Opportunity

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, uk.businessinsider.com. August 9, 2015.

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• I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating with your car. So when you navigate with your car, you want to get somewhere. When you surf, you don't want to get somewhere, you just don't want to fall off your board.

  Etgar Keret

  Fall, Writing, Giving

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just gotten a Mac for their art department, the department that creates the book covers. I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York. They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, "Me." He was like, "The box guy?"

  Biz Stone

  Art, New York, Jobs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always been very involved with environmental issues. I was fortunate to be one of the speakers at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero some years back, and Bruce Johnson and I served on the board of the Surfrider Foundation here at home. Locally and globally, we need to be doing everything we can to help Mother Earth.

  Mike Love

  Mother, Home, Years

  "Mike Love of the Beach Boys". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.

  Rachel Holmes

  Keys, People, Feminism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We have to reach out to churches and schools and help people understand science, and we have to build rapport between scientists and people of faith. Then once we get that understanding and rapport built, then everyone will be on board with climate change.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  School, People, Understanding

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it.

  Rebecca Miller

  Writing, Frustration, Color

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local high school, but I'm not sure I should mandate that for the entire country.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Country, School, Views

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't know if most people have truly taken on board what this says about our place in the natural world. It doesn't mean that humans are dominating the Earth, ruling over all of nature. In fact, it is a reminder that we are only a tiny part of nature, at the mercy of a system whose operations predate us by billions of years, and will continue billions of years after we're gone.

  Annalee Newitz

  Taken, Mean, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've been active in a minor way compared to professional activists. I was a labor leader. I led two labor strikes. I've manipulated boards. I've led marches. I've done many things.

  Gerald Stern

  Two, Leader, Done

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think in this country [UK] we could do with rather less political correctness and more straight talking across the board.

  Philip Davies

  Country, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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