W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen
I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
Yves Chauvin
The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
Gabriel Luna
In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
Yanis Varoufakis
We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
J. J. Abrams
There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
Caitlyn Jenner
Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.
Steven Seagal
When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work.
Dakota Johnson
I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.
Christopher Lee
The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about by an inner mechanism of which we very imperfectly comprehend the movements; but of which we gain a glimpse by studying their effects: and their many causes still acting on the surface of our globe with undiminished power, which are changing, and will continue to change it, as long as it shall last.
Adam Sedgwick
Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.
Thomas Harris
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.
W. E. B. Du Bois