Bert Williams Quotes
I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
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All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.
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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
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One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
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Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor.
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On 'Mad Men,' I have a bit of an advantage because I know who gets better as they repeat a scene and who's best at the beginning.
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I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, 'Wow. This is fun.'
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My dad is too cute. Every morning, he sends me one motivational quote. I have a folder full of all his quotes.
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I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
