Frederick Douglass Quotes
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.Frederick Douglass
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
Lady Gaga -
If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
Jack Davenport -
It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
Ed Stoppard -
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
Edsger Dijkstra -
Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
Ban Ki-moon
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
Zoe Saldana -
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
Ian McShane -
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
Ramana Maharshi -
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
Mal Peet -
I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
Nathalie Sarraute -
God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
Faye Dunaway -
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
Paracelsus -
I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
Abigail Washburn -
Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.
Nazanin Boniadi -
We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have helped forge the greatest country our world has ever known.
Tammy Duckworth
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I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me.
Emily Watson -
I've done fairly well as a performer and a DJ in the U.K., so 'Game of Thrones' really just opened up a whole new market for me.
Kristian Nairn -
Keep doing what you do, and people that enjoy what you do are gonna buy your music and love on you.
Marvin Sapp -
I don't like to kick people when they're down. I like to kick people when they're up.
Jimmy Fallon -
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Frederick Douglass