Frederick Douglass Quotes
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.
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Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.
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I want to encourage kids to speak up, to tell their stories. That is the only way people will know what we have to go through. Believe in yourself. Someone once told me being different isn't bad - different is just different!
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I suppose they call me a woman's director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.
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As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.
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I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
