Frederick Douglass Quotes
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
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So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.
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I think that with Donald Trump, the United States will have a president who is not ideologically limited; that is, he is an open person, much more interested in success, efficiency, and results than political theories.
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I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.
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Stay in your heart.
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I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
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The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
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Mede spoke with amused tolerance, as physicists generally speak of biologists.
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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
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'You have been allowing challenges to destroy you instead of you to destroy challenges. When challenges come – my God has the final say, not my ability or knowledge.'
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If rain was God crying, I think God was drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.
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The 'open' mind of the poet and artist can sense realities beyond the reach of our normal senses. The real problem is that our materialistic assumptions have a number of false premises built into them: it is only when we recognize this that we see there is no sharp dividing line between the everyday world and the invisible world of the clairvoyant.
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Pussy Riot is against the cult of consumerism and the commercialization of art. Our performances were always open for everyone and anyone can see our video clips for free on the Internet.
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I like to watch surfers and skaters that are really fast and really powerful and everything flows.
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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I've got to keep working hard and doing what I'm doing.
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I believe love's grip transcends gender. It transcends everything short of a very few primal needs like hunger, thirst, a need for oxygen.
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Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.