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The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

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By: Malcolm X

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Malcolm X was talking about the Civil Rights Movement.

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The Divine Impulse - it's always safe to follow it. We've got to trust it and go wherever it takes us. Especially women. We women have a great function to perform. The World needs us.

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By: Ruby Dee

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This whole thing of this 'war on drugs' and the mass incarcerations that have happened pretty much for the last 40 years has just decimated the black male population. It’s slavery. It's just slavery through and through, and it's just the same fear of the black male that existed back in the 1800s.

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By: Quentin Tarantino

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The filmmaker said on the Canadian talk show George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight in December 2012, when discussing the racial issues brought up in his film Django Unchained.

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What you have been taught by listening to others' words you will forget very quickly; what you have learned with your whole body you will remember for the rest of your life.

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By: Gichin Funakoshi

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Grandmaster Gichin Funakoshi is the founder of shotokan karate.

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It’s a brilliant, brilliant film, and every time I see it I can't believe the magic mixture of a great story and great acting and humour and action and suspense — wonderful cinema. The art of moving pictures is on every frame of this movie.

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By: George Lucas

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George Lucas said in a 2005 interview with The Telegraph, talking about Akira Kurosawa’s seminal epic Seven Samurai, which Lucas partially based the original Star Wars.

source: www.telegraph.co.uk,  

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We are not a deadbeat nation!

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By: Barack Obama

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President Obama commenting on Congressional Republican rhetoric about interfering with raising the 'debt ceiling' of the United States.

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I don’t want to take a while off, I want to keep working. There’s some other scripts, and I eventually want to direct, so maybe when I’m not filming, I can be directing something because I learned so much from the people that I worked with.

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By: Lindsay Lohan

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Lindsay Lohan on why she didn't make a trip to Africa after shooting The Canyons, a journey she originally said she wanted to make after the film wrapped.

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I needed time to figure out all the crap in my life that I’d created for myself, essentially, and I kind of realized, What am I doing? I like doing this. I like being here. This makes me happy. There was a line in the Elizabeth movie where she says, 'I'm so bored, I’ve never been taught what to do when I’m not working,' and I’m kind of figuring that out now.

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By: Lindsay Lohan

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Lindsay Lohan talking to a reporter near the end of shooting The Canyons, a troubled micro-budget film project shot just after making an Elizabeth Taylor movie for Lifetime. Lohan's co-star in The Canyons was porn star James Deen.

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Would you patent the Sun?

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By: Dr. Jonas Salk

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Dr. Jonas Salk said when asked by a journalist why he never applied for a patent for the world's 1st Polio vaccine, which he invented. He gave it to the world instead.

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I'm sweating like a fucking rapist!

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By: Jason Statham
Characters: Bateman
From: London
Genres: Comedy

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Jason Statham, playing Bateman, says this while standing on the balcony of an uncomfortably hot New York City loft in the 2005 Hunter Richards film London.

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It's not that I'm a Luddite and don't like technology; I've just never been interested. When I moved to L.A. in 1997, nobody really had cell phones, and I just never went down that path. And I'm in a slightly unique position because when I'm working - and I've been working pretty much continuously for the last 10 years - I'm never more than five feet from somebody who has a phone.

A lot of the things people amuse themselves with really are just toys for grown-ups, and it eats your time and pulls your concentration.

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By: Christopher Nolan

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Director Christopher Nolan (who's been at the helm of some of most technologically advanced films of his generation) talking about the reason he doesn't have an email address or a cell phone.

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I ask you to think about how all these devices can bridge the remaining divides in the world. We don't have all the time in the world to do something serious about climate change. I think we can do it and make it good economics.

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By: Bill Clinton

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Former President Bill Clinton at the end of a Samsung CES keynote focusing on mobile devices and advanced components, that also extending to the Samsung Hope for Children effort. TheFoundation educates children in the developing world and partners with the Bill Clinton Foundation. Clinton was appearing at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, where he gave a 20-minute speech in Las Vegas at the Venetian Conference Center.

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The messy real world still requires more than virtual interconnections to do political protests.

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By: Bill Clinton

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Former President Bill Clinton noting how social media helped topple oligarchies during the Arab Spring. At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, said during his 20-minute speech in Las Vegas at the Venetian Conference Center.