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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• Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.

  

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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.

  

  Ed Koch
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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.

  

  R. J. Cutler
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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.

  

  I. King Jordan
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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.

  

  Taya Kyle
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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.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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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.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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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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• I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave until I've eaten mine.

  

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• Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

  

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• They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

  

  Freddy Fender
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• I do not have PTSD, but if I watch part of a movie like 'The Hurt Locker,' or when I spend time around Blackhawk helicopters, I will close my eyes that night and live an entire day in Iraq, flying my missions. I remember the smell and the feel and the heat and everything about it. Then I wake up in Illinois, and I'm exhausted.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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• Portugal. The Man, to me, doesn't have any real ties. We try to change things up with every album, really progress, and let things happen.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
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• Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

  

  Frederick Douglass
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