Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
H. L. Mencken -
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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Bronowski -
I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
C. C. H. Pounder -
I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
Natassia Malthe
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I love trying new restaurants.
Dana Goodyear -
I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
Calvin Johnson -
Humility is an attribute of every good Hindu.
Kapil Sibal -
Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
Sally Ride -
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.
Abraham Cahan -
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.
Eckhart Tolle
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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.
Kate Williams -
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.
D. J. MacHale -
As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
Bao Dai -
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.
Maeve Binchy -
Sadat made us feel more secure.
Naguib Mahfouz -
The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being.
Nate Berkus
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Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.
Marilyn Monroe -
I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
Kate Adie -
Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
Gabriel Basso -
International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
Karl Liebknecht -
I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.
Frederick Douglass