Frederick Douglass Quotes

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

Frederick Douglass

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• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'

  

  K. A. Applegate
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  • Psychology
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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.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy.

  

  Ted Danson
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• Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

  

  Florence King
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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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• My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
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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.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
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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.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
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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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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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.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • Future
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• Mede spoke with amused tolerance, as physicists generally speak of biologists.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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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.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
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• If rain was God crying, I think God was drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
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• I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.

  

  James Purefoy
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• If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Judge
  • Lawyer
  • United States

• When I started out, it was around the whole 9/11 - Islamophobia was just sort of hitting a second wind. Obviously that informed a lot of my humor, and it influenced a lot of what I was talking about on stage because it was extremely relevant at the time.

  

  Riaad Moosa
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• Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
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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.

  

  Frederick Douglass