Frederick Douglass Quotes
From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.
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I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.
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I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.
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That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.
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All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.
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One who obeys himself suffocates as surely as one who obeys others.
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Husserl has shown that man's prejudices go a great deal deeper than his intellect or his emotions. Consciousness itself is 'prejudiced' - that is to say, intentional.
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It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket. I think I regarded it as a sort of talisman… Marx had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet.
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Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.
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Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.
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It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.
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To do brave things you don't have to be hugely brave, you only have be a little bit braver than you are scared.
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Some girls get swept up in the lifestyle - clubbing and partying with celebrities. You can't live your life like that, though. It's fake.
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From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.
