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"A massive state and federal effort, the likes of which we've never seen is going to be needed. We can do it for tsunami victims half a world away. We can do it for our own citizens."
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"Talent helps, but success is only achieved and sustained through consistent effort."

"Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses."

"Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive."

"Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty."
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"I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement."

"I asked him if he ever hung out with black guys in high school and he said, 'Well, no. They always had these angry looks on their faces. Who wouldn't look ticked off having to deal with nitwits like him?"

"I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV."

"In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes."

"Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America."

"My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'"

"Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out."

"In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly."
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