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 -
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 -
This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
Ban Ki-moon
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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 -
Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
Naomi Campbell -
Wherever the good stories are, I'm trying to place myself there.
Letitia Wright
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Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.
Hu Shih -
I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet.
Karl Malone -
But, when the goddess' work is done,The woman's still remains.
Bret Harte -
How can you be organized when you're in Times Square?
Mary-Kate Olsen -
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass