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.
Ted Koppel -
I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
Sam Shepard -
People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
Ian Mckellen -
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.
Imelda May -
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.
Octavio Paz -
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.
Laura Donnelly
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Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Abraham Maslow -
The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
Irina Shayk -
There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.
Feist -
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
Ted Shawn -
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.
Zayn Malik One Direction
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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.
Raf Simons -
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.
Irwin Redlener -
An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
Malcolm McDowell -
Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
Natalie Dormer -
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.
Zac Goldsmith -
Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.
Dan Webster
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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
Katharine Hepburn -
I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.
Ariel Pink -
Never look back to the past, never regret, even if there is emptiness ahead.' But I couldn't help it. Sometimes I would rather look back if it meant that I could feel something in my heart, even something sad. Sadness was better than emptiness.
Xiaolu Guo -
It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass