Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.
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We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.
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My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.
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Self-expression is impossible in relation with other men; their self-expression interferes with it. The greatest heights of self-expression in poetry, music, painting – are achieved by men who are supremely alone.
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I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.
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For colored men the Republican party is the deck, all outside is the sea.
