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" My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall. "
Alex Haley
Roots
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" At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about. "
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" In an election, one needs both hope and audacity. "
Francois Hollande
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" Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough. "
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" What do actors really want? To be great actors? Yes, but you can't buy talent, so it's best to leave the word 'great' out of it. I think to be believed, onstage or onscreen, is the one hope that all actors share. "
Gene Wilder
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" As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking. "
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" I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. "
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" Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss. "
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" Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections. "
Noam Chomsky
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" All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence. "
Sandra Cisneros
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" Being a founder is about being so driven to distraction by the world that you want to put something new in it. It's an act of creation, of irreverence, of defiance, of hope, and arguably one of narcissism. "
Andy Dunn
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World
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" The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors. "
William Hazlitt
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" I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, the good characters are people who get places, are devious, are cunning and tricky and hard to pin down. Obviously, if you play one and you do an okay job of it, that'll be on people's minds. "
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People
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" Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope. "
Mick Jagger
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" Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. "
Epicurus
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Now
" I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies. "
Roger Moore
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" They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be. "
Imran Khan
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" So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow. "
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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" All spiritual things must have in them a childlike quality. The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of going on. Few of us want to do that, but we would like very much to begin again. "
Heywood Broun
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" Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation. "
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" The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin. "
Ellen G. White
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Prove
Nothing
" Peace is necessary. For justice, it is necessary. For hope, it is necessary, for our future. "
Harry Belafonte
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" I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy. "
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" However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face! "
Jonathan Brandis
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" Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. "
Vaclav Havel
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" I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces. "
Vin Scully
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" Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can. "
Claire Scovell LaZebnik
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" I've gone through many phases in music in my life. Before I was signed, I was making completely different music, and my fan base has followed me. They continue to follow me as the music progresses and as I grow as an artist. As long as I stay true and don't pretend to be someone I'm not, I hope they'll come along with it. "
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" I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it. "
Oscar Hammerstein II
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" How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
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Bible
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" I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life. "
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