Frederick Douglass Quotes

It is quite impossible, at this early date, to say with any decided emphasis what the future of the colored people will be. Speculations of that kind, thus far, have only reflected the mental bias and education of the many who have essayed to solve the problem.

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• During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

  

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• Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

  

  Fairfax Cone
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• I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.

  

  Samantha Shannon
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• Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

  

  Gabrielle Reece
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• I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

  

  Laura Lippman
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• Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

  

  B. C. Forbes
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• I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
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• I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.

  

  Rand Paul
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• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

  

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• No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.

  

  Dane Cook
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• Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.

  

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• I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.

  

  Wale
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• Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

  

  Ralph Peters
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• There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

  

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• To me, music is a luminous experience. Whenever I'm immersed in it, life lights up for me, no matter what else is going on.

  

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• Every one of our affiliate stations was established and exists to reach women 25 to 54.

  

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• I am very excited to accept the role of Honorary Patron with Hope Air because of the national scope of the organization and the very real impact they have on Canadians who need to travel to healthcare.

  

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• Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.

  

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• The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Trying
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• It is quite impossible, at this early date, to say with any decided emphasis what the future of the colored people will be. Speculations of that kind, thus far, have only reflected the mental bias and education of the many who have essayed to solve the problem.

  

  Frederick Douglass
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