Frederick Douglass Quotes
Jefferson was not ashamed to call the black man his brother and to address him as a gentleman.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
Patrice Leconte
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My worst expectations never happened.
Barbara Bush
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
Salman Rushdie
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
Dan O'Brien
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman
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Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
L. Lionel Kendrick
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I've done 20 takes of a Vine before it goes out.
Maisie Williams
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
Kate Winslet
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
D. J. Cotrona
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I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
P. J. Harvey
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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
Ike Barinholtz
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Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
Fidel Castro
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
Natalie Massenet
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
Gabrielle Giffords
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
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We have a history of great producers - ABBA and Max Martin - we have proof of people being successful from Sweden.
Zara Larsson
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
Lana Turner
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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We say it’s a modern American Western - two gunslingers who ride into town, fight the bad guys, kiss the girl and ride out into the sunset again. And we were always talking from the very beginning that if you’re going to have cowboys, they need a trusty horse.
Eric Kripke
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I like rain, actually.
Bill Rodgers
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In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I didn't want to get into a political debate with him, but my patience was running thin...My shorts were getting a little tight.
Arlen Specter
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I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'
Lupita Nyong'o
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Jefferson was not ashamed to call the black man his brother and to address him as a gentleman.
Frederick Douglass