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Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.
Michael Steele

History, Struggle, Political

Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.
Chiaki Kuriyama

Together, Through, Rather

If you have Julia Roberts in a movie you're never really afraid for her because you know she's not going to die.
Jennifer Tilly

Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past.
Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

Legal, Successful, Past

Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.
Kristin Bauer van Straten

Lives, Won, Meet

I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.
Colin Wilson

Ideas, Writer, Interested

I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life.
Minka Kelly

Life, Important, Feelings

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
Wendy Cope

Light, Sense, Keep

I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
Wendy Cope

Someone, Writing, Two

No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
Zola Jesus

Through, Matter, Break

My style during the day is very casual - boyfriend jeans, T-shirts, Converse, Uggs, whatever. At night, I love heels and thigh-highs, I like something fresh and new, and I'm not afraid to push the envelope.
Katie Cassidy

Love, Night, Whatever

I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn't have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I'm so into the process itself, not so much the end product.
Jacqueline McKenzie

End, Process, Role

I don't know any kid that's not afraid at some point going to bed with the lights off, totally. That's why they make nightlights.
Chris Pine

Why, Off, Point

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
John Mason Brown

Someone, Play, Else

In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself.
Michael Ritchie

Work, Best, Feeling

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'
Alan Parker

Someone, London, Shoulder

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.
Nick Rhodes

Trust, Said, Idea

I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.
Lori Greiner

Best, Sometimes, Losing

I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.
Lyman Abbott

Cannot, Horse, Cow

I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.
Elizabeth Banks

Power, Girl, House

We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.
Kim Il-sung

Time, Fight, Same

I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.
Bobby Bonilla

Head, Bat, Picky

If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.
Jack Hanna

Find, Wrong, Means

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.
Malcolm McDowell

Nothing, Black, Country

Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.
Jose Garces

Adapt, Recipes, Techniques

I'm deathly afraid of rats.
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true.
Ann Robinson

Fool, True, Kid

Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.
Adrien Brody

Gay, Anybody, Pick

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
William Gilmore Simms

Death, Show, Genius

A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Nancy Johnson

Nothing, Down, Away

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