Frederick Douglass Quotes
A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay.
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Tolerance is another word for indifference.
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That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.
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I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.
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I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.
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I'm one of those people where, if I get a piece of advice from someone I look up to and respect, I'll really listen to it.
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Pixar is a community in the true sense of the word. We think that lasting relationships matter, and we share some basic beliefs: Talent is rare.
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I grew up on a dirt road in Maine, and pretty much everybody on that dirt road was related to me, and they were old. And so grumpy.
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Winston Churchill is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory.
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A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex.
