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When we let cops talk about themselves as a separate community, then we are letting cops wall themselves off from the rest of us. We don't generally do that with any other jobs. We don't talk about the barista community or the Wal-Mart greeter community.
W. Kamau BellRead
Advertising has always been the 'head boy' of the communications industry, but not anymore. Now the rest - creative, digital, and media - is just as important.
Richard EdelmanRead
I was an introverted kid; I liked my time alone. And the rest of my family is pretty extroverted, so I felt like a bit of an oddball. They're very gregarious and charming and charismatic people. I always felt like I was struggling as a young person. I think everyone was very surprised to hear that I wanted to be an actor.
Mark RuffaloRead
The strange dilemma of the 'ethnic-fiction' writer is that you are supposed to carry a banner for your homeland, be a voice for it, and educate the rest of the world about it, but I think that's far too onerous a burden for any writer to bear.
Khaled HosseiniRead
I was on a path. I was going to become a principal dancer. I never let my mind rest.
Misty CopelandRead
The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.
Ludwig Mies Van Der RoheRead
Ad agencies do all kinds of market research that ask people what they think they want, and instead, you should be creating things that you want. If you do something and you get it, the rest of the world will get it, too. Trust your own instincts, your own intellect, and your own sense of humor.
George LoisRead
If you are going to call out your teammates, you have to call out yourself, too. You can't just separate yourself from the rest, because if you are going to get 90 percent of the credit when you win, you have to be willing to take 90 percent of the blame when you lose.
Jeff Van GundyRead
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
Charles KetteringRead
The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.
Esther DufloRead
You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.
Sherman AlexieRead
I think it's like a relay race. You run, and you hand over the baton, and your kids pick it up. They take the stuff they want, throw the rest away, and keep running. That's what life is about.
Billy CrystalRead
The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.
Sam AltmanRead
Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.
Richard DawkinsRead
I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.
John MuirRead
When you start your first band and it has an impact on the rest of the world you go through a lot with those guys and you become very protective of that legacy.
Chris CornellRead
I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'
B. B. KingRead
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
John MiltonRead
When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.
Ted TurnerRead
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
Etty HillesumRead
You can suddenly have a series of countries waking up and saying, 'I want the same status as the Brits,' which will be, de facto, the dismantling of the rest of Europe.
Emmanuel MacronRead

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