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Gordon Parks

"But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group."

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Amber Hurdle

"One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'."

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Amber Hurdle

"Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides."

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Amber Hurdle

"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."

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Amber Hurdle

"I have never done Cult TV before, the convention was good. It gives the fans a chance to meet the celebrities. Connect with the guy that used to be a bunch of coloured dots on your TV screen."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was notified on July 17 to be ready to start August 7 for an October air date. When we reached the screen we did not have a single segment ready. It was done so fast the writers never got a chance to know what it was all about."

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Amber Hurdle

"If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence."

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Amber Hurdle

"I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all."

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Amber Hurdle

"Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been."

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Amber Hurdle

"He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it."

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Amber Hurdle

"The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again."

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Gordon Parks
"I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out."

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Gordon Parks
"And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well."

Poverty

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Gordon Parks
"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."

Discrimination

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Gordon Parks
"But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group."

Chance

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Gordon Parks
"There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know."

People

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Gordon Parks
"People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other."

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Gordon Parks
"So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way."

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Gordon Parks
"But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived."

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Gordon Parks
"The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs."

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Gordon Parks
"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."

Freedom

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