Frederick Douglass Quotes
He treated me as a man... He did not let me feel for a moment that there was any difference in the color of our skins.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.
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I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.
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I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
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You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
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It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.
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When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the vaster sector of the project's lifespan will be in complete book form rather than the singles.
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I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
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My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.
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Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.
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I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.
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First I will make different color tests: I will study the dark – deep blue, deep violet, deep dirty green, etc. Often I see the colors before my eyes. Sometimes I imitate with my lips the deep sounds of the trumpet – then I see various deep mixtures which the word is uncapable od conceiving and which the palette can only feebly reproduce.
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I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color.
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I wouldn't mind being a bit taller.
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He treated me as a man... He did not let me feel for a moment that there was any difference in the color of our skins.
