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- My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he…
- The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
- Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
- I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.
- Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.
- I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces…
- It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension…
- A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle