Frederick Douglass Quotes
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
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If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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Well, I can't figure out God.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
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I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.
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On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development.
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America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.
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Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me – it was actually my first instrument.
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Do you believe that the dead can influence the living?... Could you conceive of a superhuman mentality influencing someone from the other side of death?... There is such a one.... Someone, something that reaches out from beyond the grave and fills me with horrible impulses.
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I was nobody to make a pass to. I was very thin like a boy and I was very un-sexy.
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O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.
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It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.
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I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
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'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
