Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!
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We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
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Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
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If there are people who treat me wrong, I either talk to them about it, or I don't talk to them anymore. It's been the most thoughtful and considerate thing I could do for myself and other people. I am going to try to do that forever.
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We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement.
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Life is not a rehearsal.
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I had to escape the destruction of my father's bankruptcy and all that difficulty.
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
