Michael Hampton quote: "He's not the type of person who wants to be out front, but he'll get the job done and he'll do it in an exceptional way. Once he does that, you'll always remember who he is."

We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We sa...
FRED HAMPTON

I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to hav...
FRED HAMPTON

Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The ...
HAMPTON SIDES

America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
HAMPTON SIDES

I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there compet...
HAMPTON SIDES

I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in coll...
HAMPTON SIDES

The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and bra...
HAMPTON SIDES

When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chel...
HAMPTON SIDES

By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turn...
HAMPTON SIDES

I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff wri...
HAMPTON SIDES

I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
HAMPTON SIDES

I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academ...
HAMPTON SIDES

I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly differen...
HAMPTON SIDES

The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Walla...
HAMPTON SIDES

I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if h...
HAMPTON SIDES

Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, ou...
HAMPTON SIDES

The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a ...
HAMPTON SIDES

Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get yo...
HAMPTON SIDES

I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes ...
HAMPTON SIDES

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who ...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of lit...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON

I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the str...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about ...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about do...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of lit...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON

Everything would be alright if everything was put back in the hands of the people, and we're goi...
FRED HAMPTON

I want to be a superhero. Maybe I'll be a bartending superhero who shakes martinis to save the w...
SHANOLA HAMPTON

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON

Victory is the child of preparation and determination.
SEAN HAMPTON

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.
SEAN HAMPTON

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
LIONEL HAMPTON

You can't build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because th...
FRED HAMPTON

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON

We say primarily that the priority of this struggle is class. That Marx and Lenin and Che Guevara an...
FRED HAMPTON

Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond...
LIONEL HAMPTON

Maybe we should spend less time teaching kids to believe in Santa and more time teaching them to bel...
BROOKE HAMPTON

Dad they think she has Down Syndrome." He smiled genuinely as his eyes welled up with tears. "That's...
KELLE HAMPTON

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.
LIONEL HAMPTON

We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fi...
FRED HAMPTON

I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's M...
HAMPTON SIDES

The first year of the show, none of the writers had children. I think we were writing it for our cat...
BRENDA HAMPTON

Expect a lot of talking about sex. That's an arc that takes us through February.
BRENDA HAMPTON

I think we've all grown up and it's simply time to leave home.
BRENDA HAMPTON

Although we had anticipated this could be the last season, it was difficult breaking the news to the...
BRENDA HAMPTON

I can remember watching [the first dailies] and all of us turning to each other and going, 'Hey, thi...
BRENDA HAMPTON

The show has never fit WB the brand. Now I think their brand is changing a little bit. But there are...
BRENDA HAMPTON

It's just a family you don't mind spending an hour with.
BRENDA HAMPTON

I had in mind a minister friend in New York, who's just the coolest reverend ever.
BRENDA HAMPTON

As with the Camden kids, it's time for us in this television family to leave home. We feel blessed t...
BRENDA HAMPTON

We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we...
FRED HAMPTON

I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change.
LIONEL HAMPTON

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
LIONEL HAMPTON

You can joke with him and tell stories. He's an older guy, so he wears his pants up real high. We we...
CASEY HAMPTON

To be a nose tackle and to play in this defense, you couldn't want anything else. I'm built for this...
CASEY HAMPTON

It's not going to take some super-human effort. Obviously, everybody has to do their job. I'm confid...
CASEY HAMPTON

I noticed that when he's going down, he's still looking for receivers. He's always trying to throw t...
CASEY HAMPTON

He likes to pick a fight. But in so doing he gets us fired up, too. He says things a lot of guys are...
CASEY HAMPTON

That might be a good strategy for a video game. But you don't question him. He's a great coach. From...
CASEY HAMPTON

I play nose tackle, so I don't get the stats and things like that. I felt like I played at a level t...
CASEY HAMPTON

We kind of got away [from the blitz] with [Tim] Lewis here. We didn't blitz like we did in the past....
CASEY HAMPTON

I really can't understand how the Jets let him go like that. We knew how good James was. He's a smar...
CASEY HAMPTON

It was a no-brainer for me,
CASEY HAMPTON

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his ...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about d...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON

They have problems because we come at you from so many different kind of ways, they don't know where...
CASEY HAMPTON

Some analysts are trying to dismiss the retail sales as an aberration but the market will have a rea...
DANICA HAMPTON

I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I ...
LIONEL HAMPTON

[Jazz] went from the classics to ragtime to Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool jazz, . . . But it's...
LIONEL HAMPTON

What's already happening in the pulp-and-paper sector is very quickly about to happen in the steel s...
HOWARD HAMPTON

The New Zealand dollar continues to find friends. The less negative tone of the most recent economic...
DANICA HAMPTON

When moose attack, they knock a person over and begin stomping on them.
RANDY HAMPTON

Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We...
FRED HAMPTON

They are not hijacking cars, there are no machine guns, they are not raiding Wal-Mart. The rumors ha...
HAMPTON GRUNEWALD

All that success would not be possible without Walter Payton, because he was the foundation that we ...
DAN HAMPTON

I got a little girl, she's 4-years-old. Ten years from now, when she asks me about the Chicago Bears...
DAN HAMPTON

The one thing that came back to me was how lucky I was to be standing there on that stage and it's a...
DAN HAMPTON

I was so pleased to be a part of such a great dynasty. But when you do things the right way, you'll ...
DAN HAMPTON

You can't make that stuff up. It just happened.
DAN HAMPTON

It's sad, it really is sad. Maybe sooner or later, the Bears will get lucky and find a quarterback.
DAN HAMPTON

It's kind of funny. I was joking with Hines about that. I told him it's the consolation prize for us...
CASEY HAMPTON

I was joking with Hines about that. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of like a consolation prize. With...
CASEY HAMPTON

The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.
LIONEL HAMPTON

The kids are great drivers, ... They were all well behaved and it's my pleasure to give these kids t...
DAVID HAMPTON

I've always been crazy about playing.
LIONEL HAMPTON

That was a big deal at the time, because no blacks were integrated with whites in anything - not in ...
LIONEL HAMPTON

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
LIONEL HAMPTON

Grand Lake is a mountain town, so walking down the street is like being at the edge of a forest.
RANDY HAMPTON

Chicago was jazzy, man, jazzy - they had all the great jazz men.
LIONEL HAMPTON

We've been celebrating and having fun the past few days. Now it's time to rest. Kind of kick back an...
CASEY HAMPTON

Expectations of tighter monetary policy in the U.S., Japan and Europe have been in stark contrast to...
DANICA HAMPTON

We're all going over to Mrs. Bettis' house for dinner. But we're wearing our white uniforms on Sunda...
CASEY HAMPTON

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn int...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON

Literally the most trivial thing gets charged to the taxpayer, (and) things that the average person ...
HOWARD HAMPTON

This is exactly what the Conservatives were doing,
HOWARD HAMPTON

Six months ago, the McGuinty government said the deficit was $6 billion, then in the budget they sai...
HOWARD HAMPTON

We're not going to see new investment in Ontario's forest sector as long as Ontario has the highest ...
HOWARD HAMPTON

Farmers are facing a double whammy - an income squeeze, and they're also facing a cost squeeze with ...
HOWARD HAMPTON

It makes sense, because where you do have available hours of daylight you should try to use them, .....
HOWARD HAMPTON

We played a lot of nickel in that game and they ran the ball very well against our nickel defense. T...
CASEY HAMPTON

I've been able to just focus on helping our guys make plays. I want to make an impact every time I'm...
CASEY HAMPTON

(The injury) is still in the back of my mind, but I'm feeling really comfortable out there, ... get ...
CASEY HAMPTON

Coach (Bill) Cowher takes care of us. This is a football city. You wouldn't want to play anywhere el...
CASEY HAMPTON

I followed in his footsteps, ... To be a nose tackle and play in this defense, you couldn't want any...
CASEY HAMPTON

The War Department in Washington briefly weighed more ambitious schemes to relieve the Americans on ...
HAMPTON SIDES

Our run defense is our bread and butter, ... That's what we do: Stop the run. I think we're getting ...
CASEY HAMPTON

Knowing that they think that much of me makes it extra special. It's kind of a consolation prize for...
CASEY HAMPTON

It isn't etched in stone that I'm coming out of the pen yet. We've had some discussions.
MIKE HAMPTON

Well, I've always started. That's where I like to be. If they want me to relieve, I'll do that. As l...
MIKE HAMPTON

I'm ready to take it to the next step, whatever that might be. If they want me to throw another one ...
MIKE HAMPTON

If you'd told me I'd have these problems from the first month of the season, I'd have told you were ...
MIKE HAMPTON

I don't care what I do, as long as I'm involved in the outcome of a game,
MIKE HAMPTON

I'm pretty excited about the way I felt and ready to take it to the next step, whatever that may be,
MIKE HAMPTON

Mike Ditka changed my life, just like Lou Holtz change my life, just like Bill Reed changed my life....
DAN HAMPTON

A lot of times you can end up playing on one leg and hopping around out there until you get confiden...
CASEY HAMPTON

You know, I can't really say it, what (Porter) says before games. You'll hear anything out of Joey, ...
CASEY HAMPTON

The difference is this: You don't find many paper mills in southern Ontario, or pulp mills or smelti...
HOWARD HAMPTON

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shape...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON

I just went and bought my Atlanta Braves cheerleading outfit, ... It's really sexy. I'm going to sha...
MIKE HAMPTON

All that is overrated. You play, and it doesn't matter if you've been here. You forget all about the...
CASEY HAMPTON

They do come south once in a while and it's called an invasion. They push south because they are hun...
STEVE HAMPTON

You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.
FRED HAMPTON

I'm sorry, I will not change what I am or pretend to be something else just so that you will like me...
BROOKE HAMPTON

Admire other people's beauty and talent without questioning your own. Let people live their truth wi...
BROOKE HAMPTON

We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember...
FRED HAMPTON

I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die hig...
FRED HAMPTON

This is the place I want to be.
CASEY HAMPTON

Everybody worried about him and I just snuck in through the back door and got mine. There wasn't a l...
CASEY HAMPTON

Let's just enjoy what we have now and worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes.
JAMES HAMPTON

It's not that simple. It's tough. It's total reconstruction of the knee. It's a tough injury. But, w...
CASEY HAMPTON

I'm not afraid to say I'm at war with the pigs.
FRED HAMPTON

I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my...
FRED HAMPTON

When we start to fall part, she brings us back in. But we have to tell her, if we lose, that it's no...
DEVANEI HAMPTON

Our defense just did not show up. We need to play our game, no one else?s. We need to control the te...
DEVANEI HAMPTON

We're all we've got here. We're maintaining a family.
DEVANEI HAMPTON

I think it's probably something that needed to happen to us. We need to be reminded that nothing is ...
DEVANEI HAMPTON

They forgave me, but I let my team down and I know I could have helped them.
DEVANEI HAMPTON

A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother c...
FRED HAMPTON

Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has...
FRED HAMPTON

I feel college will help in the future by allowing me to get the first-line knowledge. Everyone shou...
DAVID HAMPTON

He was walking with no problem. I was very surprised,
DAVID HAMPTON

It seemed like to me they were a lot faster than last year, ... And it didn't seem like they missed ...
DAVID HAMPTON

I didn't want to go to school. It wasn't my deal. But to play football, I had to make it my deal.
DAN HAMPTON

It was a perfect storm of talent, personalities, direction, goals and dominance.
DAN HAMPTON

April 7 is the day after my son's birthday. This hits home, especially if you're raising kids of you...
DAN HAMPTON

I'm not afraid to say I'm at war with the pigs.
FRED HAMPTON

You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution.
FRED HAMPTON

I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off th...
FRED HAMPTON

They get off the ball real quick. They look like they're very well disciplined and very well coached...
GREG HAMPTON

If we don't have over-the-top coverage then we'll get burned all day long. They like to hit you with...
GREG HAMPTON

They run a spread and they look to pass about 65 percent of the time. They have a good wide receiver...
GREG HAMPTON

I don't think I lose anything with either one of them.
GREG HAMPTON

We're not worried. (Topsail is) no better than what we've seen all year. They're a well-coached team...
GREG HAMPTON

They understand (that) it's 0-0 now and here's your chance now. They're going to conference to make ...
GREG HAMPTON

If we stop making those foolish mistakes, we'll be fine.
GREG HAMPTON

Sisters. Because we all need someone who will defend us behind our back and then call us on our shit...
BROOKE HAMPTON

This needs to be done this session. This is one thing we can do to help improve our city.
HAMPTON GRUNEWALD

I don't think what we're looking to create is going to be so aggressive that eminent domain will be ...
HAMPTON GRUNEWALD

There have been multiple events that have been canceled.
HAMPTON GRUNEWALD

It's just because there are so many people downtown. We didn't want to put people in position of bei...
HAMPTON GRUNEWALD

It just does not make sense to waste taxpayers' money in this way.
HAMPTON DELLINGER

Corporate Express was surprised and disappointed when the entire state government office supplies co...
HAMPTON DELLINGER

We put this holiday issue out earlier than usual, but it was still in our stores for six weeks. The ...
HAMPTON CARNEY

He wanted to make his first debut with the women's line something that would be really spectacular.
HAMPTON CARNEY

Our spring quarterly will be back in stores mid-January and everyone will see that there's no change...
HAMPTON CARNEY

All the models are 18 and over and customers have to be 18 and over in order to purchase the issues.
HAMPTON CARNEY

The reason we pulled the holiday issue from stores is because we just launched a new perfume called ...
HAMPTON CARNEY

The executive committee voted and I support their decision. We have 26,000 young people to serve in ...
GARY HAMPTON

There is a process within the system that he could have followed to keep it from being sold. Mr. May...
GARY HAMPTON

It was a little bit of shock to learn that he is the president of the organization that is suing an ...
GARY HAMPTON

We recorded our demo in November and it should be out in a few weeks. You can listen to rough versio...
ETHAN HAMPTON

We all had very musical upbringings. Everyone brings something to the table and everyone plays an eq...
ETHAN HAMPTON

After a while our horn players dropped out and then Justin J. [Hampton] joined the group. After that...
ETHAN HAMPTON

My friend needed to do a project where he brought together a variety of musical styles. At that time...
ETHAN HAMPTON

Another advertising campaign is going to do nothing for hard-pressed farmers.
HOWARD HAMPTON

That's basically where the McGuinty government has put this industry now.
HOWARD HAMPTON

The NDP position on Northern Ontario representation is clear - the north deserves a strong voice in ...
HOWARD HAMPTON

Trying to change the name of it is a phony exercise.
HOWARD HAMPTON

We gave up some points against North Hills, but after that we started playing well.
IVAN HAMPTON

They are a nice group of kids. Overlooked? No, they know what they are doing out there. Let me tell ...
IVAN HAMPTON

Whenever you have a big injury like that it's somewhere in the back of your head that it could happe...
MARCIE HAMPTON

[Wise] knew they were going to be an emotional team coming in here, so she made sure we were focused...
MARCIE HAMPTON

I have a dream...

I dream of undoing the damage we've done.

I dream of clean ...
BROOKE HAMPTON

I thought it was a good showing. We don't usually run meets with one day in between. This time of ye...
LESTER HAMPTON

We think he (Smith) has got the perfect build and speed and endurance to run those (300 hurdles).
LESTER HAMPTON

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.
LIONEL HAMPTON

GigPosters.com has connected so many people in the poster world via the Internet that it's ridiculou...
JUSTIN HAMPTON

This weather has been a skier's dream. We've probably gotten a foot and a half of snow over the week...
JENNIFER HAMPTON

She came up to me one day and said 'I think it would be good if we did a fundraiser,' ... I said, 'W...
JENNIFER HAMPTON

She is going to make her first million by the time she is 20,
JENNIFER HAMPTON

I think the turnout will be different.
JENNIFER HAMPTON

The team gets along real well. It's been great from the get-go.
JENNIFER HAMPTON

We have to carry on those feelings we had at the end of last year and bring them into this year.
JENNIFER HAMPTON

I'm shocked by the turnout. We're very pleased.
JOE HAMPTON

I took him to Black Mountain when he was in high school, and that made a lasting impression on him. ...
JOE HAMPTON

He could have done a two-hour football camp, but that's not long-lasting.
JOE HAMPTON

Dry weather has not affected us yet. We're concerned, and we're looking at strategies.
JOE HAMPTON

Ruggles has become our most consistent scorer recently. This was also by far the best game we have p...
JOE HAMPTON

We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
FRED HAMPTON

We're not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capital...
FRED HAMPTON

He's not the type of person who wants to be out front, but he'll get the job done and he'll do it in an exceptional way. Once he does that, you'll always remember who he is.

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