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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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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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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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.
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These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.
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I would never describe football as a job because it doesn't feel like a job.
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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.
