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I say that the negro, when he is, when, when they cease to look at him as a negro and realize that he's a human being, then they will realize that he is just as capable and has the right to do anything that any other human being on this earth has a right to do to defend himself.

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.

I shattered that memory by going back there. Without realizing it until it was too late, I replaced that memory with the emptiness of that day.

I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists.

Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends may be utterly mistaken about their fellow and, failing to realize this sad truth throughout a lifetime, weep when they read in the newspapers about his death?

Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?

I sometimes get commissioned to photograph families, and they see the results and say, "Oh, I look terrible." And that's when I realize the difference between the people I choose and the people who choose me.

I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then they get aired a lot. That's the thing people don't realize.

I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.

I started to realize that things would come much easier for me once I learned why a horse does what he does. This method works well for me because of the kinship that develops between horse and rider.

...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.

I started to realize, a lot of times if you go into your memory, your sense memory, you know more than you think you do, from having watched and listened.

I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.

I still wonder if the United States realizes how much planning went into this. When we talk about "mindless terrorists," we are lying to ourselves.

I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.

I suddenly began to realize that to become an entrepreneur in the marijuana business would make me fairly well off. And I also liked the lifestyle, my own working hours.

I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

It can be stressful if I wrote something that I realize doesn't sound right. I can write something at home and be like, "Great. Nailed it." Then I'm like, "No one should have to say those words. That doesn't make any sense." It's a lot of scrambling.

It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact.

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

It doesn't take Warren Buffett to realize that when companies don't know what new rules will look like, it affects their ability to commit capital and create new jobs.

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.

I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.

It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself.

I think about willpower almost never. I realize for myself, trying to be more disciplined is pretty nebulous and it's often a slippery target. For me, I've just thought about incentives.

It gets worse when you realize that for YECs, 22 months is only 1.4 million years in evolutionary time.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

I think about it, and I realize there's been some version of a Batman or Spiderman or Superman franchise since I was a boy, since before I was a boy.

I think everybody realizes some things went wrong in the Middle East and that most of the terrorism is emanating from that area.

I think Barack Obama has been a terrible disappointment environmentally. It's very sobering to realize, as a westerner, that under the Obama administration, we now have more active oil and gas leases on public lands than Americans ever did. Obama has been worse.

I think neoliberalism is vulnerable to protest. And it's under protest because people are beginning to realize that these austerity policies are really market-driven policies designed to punish the poor, the working classes, and the middle classes by simply distributing wealth upwards.

I think it would do a lot of people good just to realize how vulnerable they are.

I think it's possible to realize you love someone as deeply as you know how to love and not end up spending the rest of your life with him.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting

I think once a person realizes that they are every day either sowing into their life either potential success, or sowing into their life potential failure, they would all of a sudden go okay, I've got to figure out what I'm going to do.

I think our concept of revolution, in terms of getting the power to do things, is too focused on the state. We have a scenario of revolution that first, you know, comes from 1917, that first you take the state power, and then you change things. And we don't realize it's collapsed.

I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure.

I think people ought to realize that if you're doing investigative reporting, you're putting something on your newspaper or on your website that no one can get anywhere else, and theoretically at least, that should make people subscribe.

I think that if Americans put critical thought, which I think they will, into what they are reading in these newspapers and actually what is being accomplished by the Trump administration, they would realize that the press in many cases has not been doing their job in reporting the truth.

I think that, for sure, we as women should try and realize that it's more about having someone to share.

I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it.

I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.

I think the biggest shift has been in realizing how much more we are creating our life than we realize. That was sort of the epiphany to me.

I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.

I think there's a percentage [of the audience] that don't realize, that don't know that [standup] is how everything began. We planned it, we work hard, rehearsals to get this. It's more of a ... it's not just coming in there in a T-shirt and holding a microphone.

I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just enjoy the day you're in. Really make the most of it.