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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You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses have the same effect.
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If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.
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I just can't wake from these scary dreams.
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I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field.
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You can't go looking for another one of those franchises. You only ever get one of those. You get 'Stars Wars'; you get 'Indiana Jones' or get 'The Matrix.' I've had my franchise.
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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.
