Frederick Douglass Quotes
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.Frederick Douglass
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
Lata Mangeshkar -
I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
Mallory Ortberg -
I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.
Karin Slaughter -
I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
Lara Stone -
It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
Carine Roitfeld
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
Kate Adie -
I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
FKA twigs -
One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
Parker Harris -
My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.
Lata Mangeshkar -
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
Irving Babbitt
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
Adam Pally -
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
Lady Bird Johnson -
And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.
Walter Dean Myers -
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
Manly Hall -
My go-to karaoke? 'Alone' by Celine Dion.
Abby Wambach -
These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.
Jack Vance
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Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.
Jim Rogers -
The thing about a bush baby is that the male establishes its territory by peeing on his hands and putting it all on the walls. And after you've had a pair for about six months, you can see people coming into the house, sniffing and going: ‘Now, that’s definitely not mulligatawny soup.’
David Attenborough -
I never had a prejudiced bone in my body.
Pruitt Taylor Vince -
The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.
Bruce Sutter -
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
Frederick Douglass