White Quotes - Page 40

• We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

  Malcolm X

  Law, America, People

  "Lost Malcolm X Speech Heard Again 50 Years Later". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 4, 2012.

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• At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land.

  Michelle Malkin

  Media, Land, Accountability

  "Obama's Cloud-Based Transparency" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 30, 2011.

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• If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.

  Michelle Malkin

  House, Listening, Birth Control

  "To Stop the Multiplication of the Unfit" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 10, 2012.

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• In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.

  Michelle Malkin

  Boys, Alaska, Media

  "Chasing Sarah: The boys behind the bus" by Michelle Malkin, www.washingtonexaminer.com. May 31, 2011.

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• Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly.

  Michelle Malkin

  Team, Life Is Good, Ivy

  "Obama's Egghead Economic Saboteurs" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 8, 2011.

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• Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.

  Edwin Markham

  Heart, Sky, Dawn

  Edwin Markham (1899). “The Man with the Hoe: And Other Poems”, W. Briggs ; New York : Doubleday & McClure Company

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• I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Music, God

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• For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.

  Demetri Martin

  Summer, Home, School

  "Demetri Martin On 'Taking Woodstock'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 15, 2009.

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• I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

  George R. R. Martin

  Character, Black And White, Grey

  "A conversation with Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin". The Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. August 1, 2011.

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• I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.

  Walter Matthau

  Nice, Giving, Coats

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• Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.

  Dave Matthews

  Country, Population, Percentages

  "Dave Matthews On His Band's 'Unique Sort Of Love Affair'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 8, 2012.

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• South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Black And White, Apartheid, South

  Thabo Mbeki, Cyril Ramaphosa (1995). “Speech of Deputy President, Thabo Mbeki, at the ANC National Constitutional Conference, March 31 to April 2, 1995, World Trade Centre”

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• I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.

  James McAvoy

  Men, Thinking, Feet

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.

  Kevin McCloud

  Light, Space, Shadow

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• I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee.

  George McGovern

  House, Presidential, Wish

  "Hope and Change ... the Constitution" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 25, 2010.

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• I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!

  Danica McKellar

  Healthy, Sugar, Meat

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• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, School, Math

  "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.

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• I've been eating tons of organic foods, staying away from processed sugars, white flours, and anything artificial. It's the same as my normal regime, but I'm being even stricter, because everything I put into my body is literally building this precious baby inside me.

  Danica McKellar

  Baby, Body, Sugar

  "Danica McKellar: 'My Hope Is To Go Fully Natural – No Epidural, No Interventions'". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. July 8, 2010.

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• In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy.

  Cynthia McKinney

  America, House, President

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• Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

  Jon Meacham

  Party, Odds, House

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• It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

  Jon Meacham

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• When I portray Stabler, I have to shave every day and cut my hair every week! And then, I really like to change my looks for films like 'Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle' where I have the pleasure of playing the ugliest man in the world.

  Christopher Meloni

  Cutting, Men, Hair

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• He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

  Herman Melville

  Hate, Heart, Race

  Moby Dick ch. 41 (1851)

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• The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

  Michelangelo

  Block, Artist, Hands

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• Every now and then, I have blissful moments of thanking God for all the amazing things that are happening. When I leave the White House after just meeting Obama or when I see my face on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' or when I meet someone who tells me that their daughter is inspired by me, those are moments that are incredibly joyful.

  Lea Michele

  Daughter, Mother, House

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