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It's almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does. Peter Jackson
You Book Illusion Speed Relatively Could Through Almost Like Look Well Make Does Optical Hobbit Story Race Mean Really Tolkien Film Thin
Barack Obama winning the election had an instant impact on everything - race relations, national self-esteem, tolerance. It also had an instant affect on 'Frost/Nixon.' At a stroke, instead of being a piece that reminded people of the agony they were in, it became an uplifting message about the agony they had escaped. Peter Morgan
People Election National Tolerance Relations Everything Stroke Obama Impact About Winning Had Instant Instead Reminded Piece Also Message Self-Esteem Became Were Affect Escaped Uplifting Being Barack Barack Obama Race Race Relations Agony
Librarians as a race tend to be tedious. Peter Shaffer
Tend Race Tedious
People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive. Phil Keoghan
Me You Sense Of Humor People Humor Will Important Sense Nothing Say Take Most Most Important Thing Always Got Important Thing Survive The Most Important Race Ask Thing
There's something weird about the Scots. We are a troubled, slightly tortured race - the sense of the respectable outward character and, inside, the turmoil of something darker. Philip Kerr
Character Sense Respectable Slightly Tortured Darker Inside About Something Troubled Outward Weird Race Turmoil
You can't avoid the conversation of diversity and remembering that diversity goes beyond race and culture. It goes into gender and sexual orientation and all sorts of things. Phillipa Soo
You Conversation Culture Gender Diversity Sexual Remembering Beyond Sort Goes Race Avoid Orientation Things
No woman anywhere should be denied access to quality healthcare because of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status. Philomena Kwao
Woman Quality Status Because Access Healthcare Denied Anywhere Race Should Ethnicity
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. Pierre Bayle
History Nothing Crimes Properly Misfortunes Human Race Speaking Human Race
The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age. Pierre de Coubertin
Property Age Neither Spirit Nor Race Olympic
I think marathon swimming makes you work more on your upper body, your abdomen, trapezius, and your arms. When you finish a race, your arms and abdomen are more tired than your legs. Your legs are tired because you've just sprinted for the line, but at the end of the race, when you start to relax, it's your arms that hurt. Poliana Okimoto
Work Tired You Hurt Relax Swimming Think Finish More Arms Because Makes Line End Than Upper Just Legs Race Body Your Marathon Start
I'm conscious of my race and ethnicity in the legislature - it's hard not to be. Pramila Jayapal
Legislature Race Ethnicity Hard Conscious
I definitely feel like, in America, even though race is a social construct... there's still a line drawn in the sand; there still are sides. Politically, there's a black side and a white side, and I stand unapologetically on the black side. Rachel Dolezal
Black White Side Sides Definitely Though Drawn Construct Feel Like Still Line America Politically Race Social Sand Stand Even
I really just prefer to be exactly who I am, and black is really the closest race and cultural category that represents the essence of who I am. Rachel Dolezal
Black Exactly Category Am Cultural Closest Essence Just Represents Race Prefer Really Who
I wish Americans understood that race is a social construct, even if we don't want it to be. Rachel Dolezal
Wish Construct Understood American Want Race Social Even
I think that it is too common for white feminists to say, 'We want some diversity. Come join our movement about gender, but we want you to check the class and race at the door.' And you can't undo that braid of race, class, and gender: all three intersect with each other, so it's important for more education to be done about that. Rachel Dolezal
Education You Class Three Gender Diversity Important White Think Too Other Our Say Some About More Join Check Come Feminists Undo Done Common Movement Want Door Race Each Intersect
Race is such a contentious issue because of the painful history of racism. Race didn't create racism, but racism created race. Rachel Dolezal
History Racism Because Issue Race Create Created Painful
What I believe about race is that race is not real. It's not a biological reality. It's a hierarchical system that was created to leverage power and privilege between different groups of people. Rachel Dolezal
Reality People Power Believe System Hierarchical About Between Real Privilege Different Race Created Groups Biological Leverage
I feel like we'll forever live in a country that's divided... Divided by race... Divided by love and hate. Raheem DeVaughn
Love Hate Country Live Divided Feel Like Forever Love And Hate Race
My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way. Rahm Emanuel
Attitude Freedom You Change Mind Frame Way Say Liberation Run Operate Govern Race Your Last
As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves! Rainbow Rowell
Life People My Life White About Diverse Talk Moved Places Race Themselves Realized Less Amongst
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition. Ralph Adams Cram
Character Evil Members Directed Inspired Aristocracy New Came Tradition Very Revolt Eighteenth Eighteenth Century Against Republicanism Race Century Measure Large Large Measure Fast Thing
So long as procreation stems from parents of the same race, appearance and lineage are typically congruent. Interracial unions give rise to added complexity. Interracial amalgamation will produce some individuals whose features diverge from those commonly ascribed to the races of their ancestors. Randall Kennedy
Will Long Parents Unions Added Ancestors Those Complexity Some Rise Give Features Stems Individuals Lineage Same Commonly Race Procreation Races Produce Appearance Whose
White Americans can go a long time without ever thinking about the color of their skin. Black and brown Americans have no choice but to confront issues of race every day. Randi Weingarten
Time Day Every Day Black Long Long Time White Skin Every Thinking No Choice About Brown Color Without Go Issues American Race Confront Choice Ever
What I really hoped to do with my work was to at least be able to define my relationship to race. Rashid Johnson
Work Relationship Define Hoped Able Least Race Really
The thing that turned out to be interesting about CB radios was the ability to call out in the world with anonymity. You choose your handle. Race and class become non-signifiers. Rashid Johnson
You Class World Become Out Ability About Anonymity Call Handle Interesting Race Turned Your Choose Thing
The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space. Rashid Johnson
Space Humor Complexity Find Ability Look Sort Still Very Any Interesting Race Whole Associated
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