W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.W. E. B. Du Bois
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
Gabe Kaplan -
I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
Nas -
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
Wendell Berry -
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen -
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
Parker Posey -
As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
V. E. Schwab
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
Pat Riley -
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
Mae West -
In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
Salman Rushdie -
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
Harry A. Blackmun -
You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
Nathan Fillion -
The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
T. Boone Pickens
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
Federico Fellini -
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen -
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny -
Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
Irene Rosenfeld -
Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
Garry Shandling -
Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
Paloma Elsesser
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Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.
Carolina Herrera -
The Avatar draws upon Himself the universal suffering, but He is sustained under the stupendous burden by His Infinite Bliss and His infinite sense of humour. The Avatar is the Axis or Pivot of the universe, the Pin of the grinding-stones of evolution, and so has a responsibility towards everyone and everything.
Meher Baba -
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau -
I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
Mary Douglas -
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
W. E. B. Du Bois