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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Well, I can't figure out God.
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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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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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My favorite Asimov works were the 'Foundation' books because the concept, at the time, was crazy, but psycho-history has now turned out to be an actual real thing. You can predict the actions of large groups of people once you understand, for lack of a better way to put it, their way of existing and their prejudices.
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I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'
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I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.
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I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music. That's my big goal. The larger preoccupation is how do we force cinema to respond to the existential, political, and spiritual dimensions of who we are as a people.
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Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut feeling.
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I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.
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I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
