Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.
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To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.
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I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
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If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're crazy. But he doesn't force it on you. He doesn't force anything on you, which really makes things easier.
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We've got a lot of work to do before we win this game but we're back in it.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
