Frederick Douglass Quotes
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.
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Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
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When we were in Sweden, there was a fan that hid in a bin. I think one of the security guards saw and tried to take her out, and she went a bit crazy and started tackling them.
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I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it's about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.
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Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
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An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
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Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
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More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.
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I look back and think I'm a smart person! What the hell was I thinking?
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I took an MA course in creative writing a couple of years back, and I was definitely in the bottom of the class.
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I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.
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From day one, The Shield was a vehicle. It wasn't, 'This is what we're doing for the rest of our lives.' It was, 'This is the vehicle we'll use to bust into WWE, to ride to the top of it, and then we fight each other.' That was always the plan.
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If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
