Frederick Douglass Quotes
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.Frederick Douglass
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe -
By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
Rachel Hunter -
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T. S. Eliot -
In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
Mahershala Ali -
I belonged to the 'Point Break' generation - I watched the original when I was 13 years old. It's basically the story of the rescue of the human spirit, and we continue to fight that same spiritual battle, but with a political expression.
Edgar Ramirez -
Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
Fletcher Knebel
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
Calvin Harris -
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
Larry Wall -
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
Dan Quayle -
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
Iain Sinclair -
Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
Sam Brownback -
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
Salman Rushdie
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
Ban Ki-moon -
I love Channing Tatum!
Zendaya -
Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.
Tana French -
I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.
Felix Dennis -
I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.
Lady Gaga -
There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong-deadly wrong–to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.
Beau Willimon -
You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.
Joe Strummer The Clash -
If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.
Mark Dayton -
I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.
Barack Obama -
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass