Frederick Douglass Quotes
Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.
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Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
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But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a thin top layer altogether free of small black pits. And, like a watermelon, the whole thing can be covered with a plain dark rind.
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I have a trainer, a really nice woman named Nina Greenberg, and she got me a training plan, and we go running in the canyons in Malibu. It's just beautiful up there, absolutely gorgeous. You see bobcats up there sometimes.
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Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.
