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.

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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.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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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.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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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.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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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.
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A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer between heartwood and bark. It stands waiting for light, which it catches in the close-woven sieves of its leaves.
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Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, Drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of days The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.
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You know, in life there are only three or four fundamental decisions to make. The rest is just luck.
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Bill and Larry The Cable Guy walk by a stone that Bill's neighbor had had 1894, his address, carved into it.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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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.