Frederick Douglass Quotes
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.
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I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.
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The challenge starts when you first come to Mumbai. But it's momentary if you win an award.
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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.
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The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
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My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.
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Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
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I never remember my parents having an argument.
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Foreign terrorists are using technology to radicalize Americans at a troubling pace that continues to increase.
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Rescuing people from the results of their own foolishness is really what customers service is all about. Customers rarely obey the rules. They expect you to rescue them whenever they do something stupid. Will you be a “rescuer,” known far and wide for customer service, or will you steadfastly insist that your customers follow the proper procedures?
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I am starting to look like and perform like the Lou that I used to be.
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That was the day that my brother was in our house again. In a strange and inexplicable way, my brother had come home.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
