Frederick Douglass Quotes
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.
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Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.
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It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.
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I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
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You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.
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I do live a weirdly divided life, because I'm not a Hollywood superstar, I don't live on Malibu Beach, I don't do massive 'OK!' spreads, I don't go to premieres and parties that much.
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The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
