Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I love trying new restaurants.
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I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
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Humility is an attribute of every good Hindu.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
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While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.
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People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.
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Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
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It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.
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As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
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Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.
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I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.
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Before Obamacare, only 12% of individual insurance plans covered maternity plans. Even without that important benefit, women were charged up to 48% more than men for the same benefit package.
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Lauryn Hill might have cursed a couple of times in her music, and Missy Elliot definitely just doesn't care. I'm really more inspired by their creativity more so than just the cursing. I'm really impressed by clean music.
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You may reason that we have [brains] to perceive the world or to think, and that's completely wrong.
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Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to 'The Exorcist.' But my agent called me to tell me they were going to do it, and there was a part for me. I said, 'But I died in the first film.' 'Well,' he told me, 'this is from the early days of Father Merrin's life.' I told him I just didn't want to do it again.
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Some people think racism has dissipated or no longer exists. But it's hidden in more strategic places.
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I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.